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Talking of 'father figures', Perl is most certainly superior to Python (and thus Ruby). For a start it has more history (for anyone who values that) and thus it shouldn't be a surprise that its libraries are more diverse except for graphics-wise use. Perl also has better syntax which is more similar to languages like C than Python and it is also allows more tinkering as it has features of a less lower down language as apposed to Python.

Didn't reread this, if it doesn't make grammatical sense I don't care.