I <3 Python
In the past I've played with numerous programming and scripting languages. Started off with Pascal in the 90s, moved on to C which I never got good at, its just so easy to break. Good for doing low level stuff, but a pain in the arse for large amounts of other stuff. Used to do a bit of x86 assembly, 68K, 6502 etc, all fun for low level. I did a bit of BASIC, but never quite got into that, always seemed a bit too high level for me...wasn't convinced. Over the years though as I've done more sysadmin, and less programming, I've made do with shell scripts. Checked out a few more scripting languages guessing I was missing out, but they never quite hit the spot. Something told me I should be writing my scripts in perl, but on trying to learn it, while I could see it was powerful, it just didn't do it for me. Made some half hearted looks at Lua and Lisp in the past too, and Lisp was probably the one that while different pressed my buttons. Still haven't got into it though someday maybe I will. And finally, along comes Python. Something just clicked. Its incredibly powerful, yet just so darn intuitive and easy to learn and use. I amazed myself today because I've never written web scripts, know next to rock all about HTML, forms and CGI and yet within a day I wrote a reasonably complex little web based script in Python. I'm absolutely smitten, there is something just so right about it.