>>106257847
That was Perl. Python was neither popular, nor used in any scripting capacity before Python 2.6.
It was always a programming language first and scriptards hated it for this, they all used Perl in anger.

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>>105835815
You guys sound upset. Has the line gone down or something?
Here, a relaxing read to soothe your pain: http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html