Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Brett g Porter]

"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne at acm.org> wrote in message
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> PL/1 was evidently _vastly_ superior to C++, by the way; after all,
> what important operating systems ever got implemented in C++?

Come, now.
The first external release of C++ was in Feb of 1985. What 'important
operating systems' have been written since 1985?

BeOS was all C++, AFAIK. Certainly much of the Windows codebase is in C++
now (never having seen the source, I can only guess).