THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO IT. That's the motto of Perl and Larry Wall. It has led to a very bloated language over the years. You may find it hard to understand a Perl program you wrote when you come back to it after 6 months, and impossible to follow someone else's Perl program.

Python was designed by professors to make it difficult for their students to introduce bugs into their code. Derived from ABC language as I recall.

Professional programmers say they just enjoy Python.

Euphoria is more obscure, but supposedly simple to learn and powerful.

C/Java/Pascal etc. are lower level than Perl/Python/TCL etc.
You can simply do more in a line of Python than in a line of C or Java. Several studies have proven that. Companies switch to the higher level scripting languages to get projects developed faster. TCL is still dominant there I suppose, but losing ground to Python.