True, but I don't think Python really eclipsed Bash in terms of popularity (or Perl, for that matter) until much, much later. I've always thought of Bash as the

True, but I don't think Python really eclipsed Bash in terms of popularity (or Perl, for that matter) until much, much later. I've always thought of Bash as the "traditional" approach to gluing binaries/pipes together. Bash has been a staple of most Linux distributions for as long as I can remember, but Python only seemed to start being packaged as default in the mid-2000s (or at least, that's the impression I have. My memory could be failing me).