Ben Scott wrote:
The feeling I have is that Python has only started to get "mainstream attention" in the past few years, while Perl became popular sooner. If true, one wonders why. And if true, that might also account for some of the "buzz" around Python; Perl isn't as "interesting", being more established. It might also be that Perl is seen more as a "boring every-day problem solver".
Perl leveraged a lot from shell scripting; for someone already proficient in ksh, awk, and sed, it was extremely simple to transition to perl. Essentially, you didn't have to start from scratch; perl felt like the same old familiar shell scripting, minus the pain of wrestling with awk and sed.
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