Well, I've had a couple of goes at python now. Once with someone else's project and once writing a small application from (well, bridging an input device to an application, anyway). I have to say I'm not really impressed. It's moderately faster to write than C, but lacks the definition. Runtime does seem to be significantly faster than perl when using external libraries, and to assume that has more to do with how much less overhead there seems to be with symbol lookups and the like. On the other hand writing a package/module/class/whatever you want to call it in perl feels like much less of a hassle. I can see where the whitespace scoping is a good idea (make those lazy programmers indent their code), but I miss my braces. I also miss switch and static.
