Yeah, and I also made a decision to not even start to use Python. (Although I think it's a wonderful language for newbie programmers, and many people programming in Perl would be far better off programming in Python (including, but not limited to, almost anyone who force "better coding style", for some measurement of "better" in one way or another upon others)).

Idem for Java.

Had I been a programming in Python, I think I would have made the switch to Perl eventually. Had I been programming in Java, I would have switched to C (but I'll stick to C and don't see myself going to Java route).