@siracusa While this is true, Python as it exists today is newer, and most developers are using packages and constructs that are a lot newer than 34 years old (numpy, pandas, pytorch). Perl wasted a lot of time inventing a completely different language, which was a dead end. Perl was great for writing quick and dirty scripts for simple text processing tasks, but horrible and unmaintainable for anything large.
@not2b As someone who spent 25 years writing large, maintainable things in Perl, I have to disagree.
@siracusa You must have more discipline than I did; reading and understanding Perl code was always much more difficult for me than Python, even though I learned Perl first (including earlier versions; I first downloaded Perl from Usenet back in the 80s).