I am looking forward to learn a language mainly for my electronic projects. My projects may include PC to MCU communications, TCP/IP (like catching new facebook comments and sending it to MCU) etc. I have seen a lot of similar projects using python and perl. So which one will be better and easier to learn as well as to implement?
At the risk of suggesting something "weird" -- you might want to take a look at Processing and its microcontroller counterpart Wiring. They are designed for exactly this sort of use case.