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>>speckx+(OP)
It's been discussed before, but Python just seemed more straightforward to a lot of people. It had a built-in object oriented model as well when that was the rage instead of the weak default one and dozen modules on CPAN to do object oriented programming. There was generally one way to do something and that was easier to learn than TIMTOWTDI.

>>7thacc+bH
TIMTOWTDI broke down with trying to do OOP in Perl. You could either bless a hash, or use a meta-object framework (moose?). You could end up with hierarchies of different types of objects with their own behavior.