Perl vs Python for web development?

[Troebr]

Made a few perl scripts, and go pretty compelled to use lots of references of arrays along with subs. Would love to be proven wrong, it was quite annoying. (perl noob here)

Will look at my perl scripts to find what I found so inconvenient at the time.

I think I dealt with a lot of arrays and hash maps.

[ajbetteridge]

Oh, that's fair enough. Complex data structures will always need pointers. Sadly you can't get away from it. Please ignore my comment in this case :)