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It could have used a good "Perl: the Good Parts" book.

With a team where everybody wrote it in a similar style, Perl did perfectly well. Mod_perl was fast. I liked Perl.

Then Django came out, and then Numpy, and Perl lost. But Python is still so incredibly slow....

>>Scarbl+(OP)
Mostly - from here - python is so incredibly slow to write. Who has this kind of time?

>>creer+N
Slow to write, slow to run and throws whitespace errors. Surprised it made it so far.

>>ipaddr+F1
Sounds exactly like academia itself, and is probably a selling point if you’re a business.

>>Scarbl+(OP)
Check out "Perl Best Practices" by Damien Conway, and the more recent "Modern Perl" by Chromatic. Both can be had as paperbacks, and I think both are also available free on online.

>>tasty_+06
I'll go further. Ignore the Perl specific bits and Conway's "Perl Best Practices" is one of the best general programming books ever written.

It has so many great pieces of advice that apply to any programming task, everything from naming variables, to testing, error handling, code organization, documentation, etc, etc. Ultimately, for timeless advice on programming as a profession the language is immaterial.