Well, if you can do your work comfortably with other tools more power to you.
My own view is that it's a good idea, once you've gone through the introductory documentation, to start working on a "real" problem, though probably not one you need to have solved and working tomorrow! J excels in numeric computation, so perhaps you can find a problem drawn from that domain? As to Perl, for numeric work, especially involving arrays, I don't think there's any comparison ; I don't know enough about Python to comment.
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