Today I went through "SoftIRQ" chapter from the Love book. Nice one. Also started with python. I have this "Dive into python" pdf which I think is a good python starters book. Python looks like a nice language (although some things like indentations are really annoying. But it looks more calm and composed kind of language compared to perl which can get wild and out of control in NO time. I still think perl-gets-your-job-done! I rewrote some of my perl scripts in python today. The python scripts look more manageable and maintainable (with doc strings and all the self documenting things) but I found that perl is faster. Maybe I am using the wrong objects in python. I never sat and studied perl, I just started. And that's the best thing about perl. I will get more comfortable with python and lets see if it kicks out perl as my favorite scripting language.