Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Aahz]

In article <3CDBE586.A81BA732 at fnal.gov>,
David J. Ritchie <ritchie at fnal.gov> wrote:
>
>If so, then a computer language that lets you move blocks of code
>around easily is an advantage.  With Python, it is clear that you
>need to augment the language with a suitably capable editor if you
>adopt that composition style.  Maybe it's just the beginning of the
>indication that one should be composing--not in a text editor at
>all--but in a design tool that generates the text--that's sort of what
>the popularity of the "visual xxx" things are saying...

It's not clear to me, but then I cut my teeth on programming more than
twenty years ago.  vim's python-mode automatically indents after block
constructs, and my preference is actually to not use python-mode.
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