The moral is that Perl is a great language for implementing haiku … but Python is rather better at implementing functional specs.
Via Slashdot, [1] A comment about Python vs. Perl [2]
A rather good comment about one of the reasons I dislike Perl. I also dislike Python (significant whitespace?) but if I had to choose between the two, I would probably use Python.
[2] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/16/1729227&cid=58