On the future of Perl 5

Sorry, but I just can't find a difference between average Python code and average Perl
code. Both are nicely indented, averagely structured and so so readable. I can only
speak from my own experience which is a couple of 100,000 lines of code in each
language. And this experience says: Python aims at forcing people to write readable
code, but it fails. It certainly does not do worse than other languages, but it also doesn't
do better. And yes, there is often more than one way to do anything in Python.

Now internals, that's someting different. As the current maintainer of Perl's Inline::Python
module which is embedding a Python interpreter, I can say that I like Python's internals.
They really are more readable than Perl's though it still takes some source code reading
to fully understand them. The docs just aren't enough.

A funny thing tough: while in Perl you have to explicitly sv2mortal an object when
returning it from a C-function to Perl space, to get the reference count lowered after the
next Perl statement (which could be an assignment), Python implicitly gives this
responsibility to the stack, which is very confusing for the beginner for sure.

On that PostgreSQL thing: you must be confusing me with someone else. I've certainly
never written about anything concerning PostgreSQL and Python. I've not even used this
combination yet.