[sirtaj]

As someone who shifted from a lot of perl to a lot of python in the early 2000s, it was because the same shortcuts that made perl really great for system "archaeo-devops" scripting made it difficult to read others' code and to write anything larger than a couple of files. I still use grep, awk, sed, cut etc etc a ton, just not perl.

I wouldn't say I was brought up on Visual Basic though. It was not a language that taught structured programming at all.