Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perl is like 10 languages smushed together.  To write it, you need only
> learn one of the 10.   To read someone else's, you don't know what subset of
> those 10 they've used until you get deep into the code.

+1 QOTW.

Perl: The Swiss Army Knife of programming languages, including the bit
where you can never find the right blade to open up.

Chris Angelico