Comment Re:At the companies I've worked with... (Score 2) 271
I still use Perl when I have something that's heavily regex-based.
Python's better for when you need something that's readable afterwards and/or leverages a lot of pre-written code.
Python's equivalent of CPAN provides code that's a lot less fragile than what comes out of CPAN. Probably because it's not having to run a lot of stuff through a C compiler.