This is _so_ true! I remember a few years ago interviewing for a position where the largest supercomputer in the area was being used to run Perl programs. Of co

This is _so_ true! I remember a few years ago interviewing for a position where the largest supercomputer in the area was being used to run Perl programs. Of course the place I ended up working was running Python at supercomputer scale and running out of I/O bandwidth because of all the naive Python runtime startup crud.