Yeah, my first encounters was the early 90s, where I wrote a gene sequencing support system with TCL/TK - it was pretty fun and worked pretty well, but there wa

Yeah, my first encounters was the early 90s, where I wrote a gene sequencing support system with TCL/TK - it was pretty fun and worked pretty well, but there wasn't a lot available in the space. Python was still being dreamed up, bash wasn't up for it, and otherwise you had Fortran/C/C++/Pascal/Lisp. Fast forward 20 years and I found myself using it again, but it felt silly compared to the now-mature Python, Lua, PHP, and Ruby.