I love perl but it is awful at signal handling. The threading and shared memory interface are not as good as other languages either. Python has a low barrier f

I love perl but it is awful at signal handling. The threading and shared memory interface are not as good as other languages either. Python has a low barrier for entry and can be useful immediately to newer programmers. It is also fairly well rounded. That being said, I am not partial to python as OP was with fortran, and steer around it regularly.