Back in 2003 I was looking for an interpreted language with very simple, almost psuedocode-like syntax. The use case was to write a non-optimized, highly docume

Back in 2003 I was looking for an interpreted language with very simple, almost psuedocode-like syntax. The use case was to write a non-optimized, highly documented reference decoder for a new video codec. I stumbled across a strange new (to me) language that had clean, readable syntax, an imperative style (I didn't want or need nested class definitions), and was very parsimonious about the use of parenthesis and brackets, to the point where it relied on indentation and whitespace to indicate control flow, instead of the traditional curly brackets. And thus began my career as a "niche" programmer focusing on Python.