>>25terse is ok, the problem is that Perl promotes ''''''''''''''''''''''clever'''''''''''''''''''''' tricks achieve terseness. code golfing isn't just a game in this language how things are done. and we all know that this is a pretty stupid way to program.
>>26oh, I agree that most of code written in Python sucks. but Python has good idioms and promotes a different coding style, it's just that shell and Perl scripters who migrated to it actively fight against it. if you write it the 'pythonic' way, you rarely if ever touch regexes because you work with lists, dicts and objects instead of strings (I've been programming in FIOC for years and I only used a regex once, and it was copied from an RFC anyway). of course the 'pythonic' way has its flaws, but they're of a completely different kind and mostly have to do with the language's shortcomings when it comes to FP and concurrency.