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I'd say people took Python over Perl because of readability, not because of the Perl 6 saga.

If you take the time to learn the language, it's quite readable.

I used to know a guy who'd freak out about not being able to read Perl. He couldn't write ("speak") it either, so I'm not sure what he was expecting.

I've met many developers who had never written Python or spent any time learning it, but still found it very readable.