I was at the point of deciding whether to focus on Perl or Python when there was the 01Apr "Parrot" gag on Slashdot. This was a couple of decades back. Then La

I was at the point of deciding whether to focus on Perl or Python when there was the 01Apr "Parrot" gag on Slashdot. This was a couple of decades back. Then Larry Wall announced Perl6 and focusing on Python while awaiting P6 was an easy call.