Programming never was in my job description until this new job, but about half of the work I did was coding (Perl) for the better part of 12 years. I absolutely love Perl.

That said, I am really liking Python as well. Only been using it for about three months, but it was exceptionally easy to grasp, and I'm already doing most of the advanced things I've done in Perl with the new language.

I find the 'everything is an object' to be very intuitive and handy. Perl6 has this model as well, but I don't think it's too far into the wild as of yet. I also like the fact how spacing is what separates blocks, and that very few line terminators and sigils are necessary (code looks cleaner and more streamlined).

All in all, Perl is still and will always be my favourite, but I am finding that people who bash Python probably haven't given it a fair chance ;)

-stevieb