4th top growing skill in past 3 months Average starting Python programmer salary 70k+ Sources: - http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/05/it-hiring-and-salaries-up---wh.php - http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=Python/Salary
and elegant code whitespace enforcement Many modules and libraries to import from Cross platform - Windows, Mac, Linux Supportive, large, and helpful community
read other’s code, and not obfuscated sub b{$n=99-@_-$_||No;"$n bottle"."s"x!!--$n." of beer"};$w=" on the wall"; die map{b."$w,\n".b.",\nTake one down, pass it around,\n".b (0)."$w.\n\n"}0..98 No more forgotten braces and semi-colons! (less debug time) Safe - dynamic run time type checking and bounds checking on arrays Source http://www.ariel.com.au/a/teaching-programming.html