Thanks for all the responses so far! :) It's helping met get a better 
picture of what to go for. I have no programming experience and I've 
just been starting to play around with bash since it looked fun to 
learn. So I'm still learning my way around bash scripting. Well that 
sounds like a good idea to learn both and see which I like better, I 
will still have to pick one to go for first. Cause to me it seems it 
would be confusing to learn two languages at the same time when starting 
to learn a first language, or am I seeing that wrong?

I did buy two books, one on python and one on  perl. Learning Perl(By  
Tom Phoenix Brian D Foy Randal L. Schwartz) and Python for 
Informatics(by Charles Serverance)

On 2016-12-30 10:14, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> By the way. If you would like I can happily send you a brief reading
> list ‎if you want to get started with Perl 5. I just need to know if
> you already know any other languages so I can send you the right list.
> For example if you are already a C++ programmer you only need to read
> 1 very short book and a couple of pages on the Perl web site to update
> what's changed since it was published. If you don't have programing
> experience then the list gets longer
> 
>   Original Message  
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 04:04
> To: Maarten; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Perl 6 just hit
> 
> Ok well I will try to be unbiased but full disclosure I am a real hard
> core Perl programmer and I admittedly am not a huge Python fan.
> Both have their good and bad points.
> ‎
> The python philosophy is to enforce good programing practices by
> enforcing indentation.‎
> ‎
> The Perl philosophy it there are many ways to do it.‎
> ‎
> A little bit of a primer one of  the biggest motivation of the
> original writer of Python was he hated how sloppy Perl programmers
>  were and wanted to create a language that enforced what he thought
> were good coding practices. By the way any one who disagrees a quick
> google search for linux journal articles circa 2001 can back me up
> with his own words.
> 
> The truth is ‎I've seen good and bad code in both languages. An
> enforcing indentation doesn't help especially when the the interpreter
> can't tell the difference between a tab and the equivalent number of
> spaces on that platform.
> 
> Perl got an image Problem thanks to a 2002 April fools joke by Larry
> Wall the writer of the language which oddly back fired on him. He
> announced Perl 6 was the new Perl engine which would also be able to
> run code in a VM in any other language. He also created a code repo
> for it. A couple of days later he was shocked to find working code in
> the repo. So he rolled with it and started to put together extremely
> ambitious specs for Perl 6. Now Perl should have gone through several
> major releases since then but because of the lofty goals of Perl 6 it
> didn't. That's not to say the language has been static. No Perl 5
> program I've written in the last 10 years will not run on a version of
> Perl 5 from 2002 or even in most cases a version from 2005. To People
> who know the language well what we are calling Perl 6 should probably
> be called Perl 9.
> 
> As for Python it's become popular and definitely Red Hat's favorite
> scripting language. It's got a great following and is used for many
> things.
> 
> As for modules Perl 5 still has more but many of the are dated, Python
> is catching up and it has the benefit of youth and popularity.
> For example Amazon AWS has a Python API, but not a Perl API. I've been
> debating about writing one my self and in the Perl tradition there are
> 2 ways I can do it build on LWP (lib WWW Perl) to create a native Perl
> module, or take the lazy route by create an "XS" module which wraps
> the C API. The advantage of the XS method is I can run a script and
> have a clumsy but working module in seconds, then spend a couple of
> hours to make it easy to use.
> 
> What you will here is Perl is dead, but the truth is most people use
> it on a daily basis and don't know it. Perl is still the swiss army
> chainsaw of scripting languages.
> 
> Honestly for support on learning Python is easier.
> With Perl if you can get to the point where you really understand the
> power of anonymous references, it's still a very fast and flexible
> language.
> 
> In conclusion
> Either one is good. Learn them both at least superficially. Tinker and
> play with them and see which one is right for you.
> 
> 
> 
>   Original Message  
> From: Maarten
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 03:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Perl 6 just hit
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Saw this discussion and found it interesting, got a somewhat half on
> topic question. I've been trying to decide on a language to learn,
> python and perl both stood out. There seems to be various discussions 
> of
> why one is better than the other, and the pro's and con's of both. From
> what I've seen perl has been around longer than python and there are
> plenty of places to ask for help and lots of perl modules to use in 
> your
> code. Python on the other hand seems newer, also has modules(probably
> less than perl), and has quite bit of community around too. However
> lately I've been seeing that there are more python projects than perl,
> making me think python might be the better one to go for. So I am more
> wondering what peoples opinions on this mailing list are when it comes
> to python or perl, that way I can consider the opinion of people who
> have been programming for a while before I make a decision to what I am
> going to do ;)
> 
> On 2016-12-30 02:03, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> I couldn't agree more, usually when I go to an open source event if
>> the crowd is a good one they wind up going some where else after the
>> event is over and chat for hours.
>> Thanks for the links, I'll look into them even though I'm on too many
>> mailing lists already‎ :).
>> 
>>   Original Message  
>> From: ToddAndMargo
>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 18:24
>> To: Paul Robert Marino
>> Cc: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Perl 6 just hit
>> 
>> On 12/28/2016 01:09 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>>> there is one for active Perl 6
>>> projects but they don't want any one who doesn't already have an
>>> active Perl 6 project to attend. I asked them very politely for a
>>> clarification on their policy and didn't not get a response. I didn't
>>> get a reply but I know other Perl 5 programmers who showed up looking
>>> to get porting tips, and were asked to leave because they weren't
>>> currently Perl 6 programmers, which is a very poor approach to take 
>>> if
>>> you really want to rebuild the Perl community.
>> 
>> I have found in all my years in this biz that when so called "experts"
>> get
>> arrogant and condescending, it is usually because they don't
>> know what they are doing. The real experts love to talk and talk
>> about what they have learned. Sort of like letting the air out
>> of a compressed air container.
>> 
>> There is a Perl 6 mailing list with a bunch of great guys
>> over at
>> 
>> http://lists.perl.org/list/perl6-users.html