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I agree with this threshold idea, and I would argue that Perl and probably Ruby also have a lower threshold for switching than Python. Nothing against Python.

Having moved from Perl to Python, there isn't really anything difficult in switching. I looked at Ruby too, which felt like a tidied up version of Perl, especially regarding

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