I worked in an HPC lab at a medium-sized university around 10 years ago. Python was definitely the most popular interpreted language among the students. I remem

I worked in an HPC lab at a medium-sized university around 10 years ago. Python was definitely the most popular interpreted language among the students. I remember it was years(?) earlier that MIT had switched much of its curriculum to Python. Some older folks used Perl in places where others would've just written bash; mostly scripting invocations of actual number-crunching programs. Ruby would've raised some eyebrows for sure!