Larry Wall: I was introduced with Python a little bit in the 90s. He worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for five years and studied gamma ray bursts, the largest explosions in the universe from across the universe. Then he took a job at that ignition with the ICF campaign, the inertial confinement fusion campaign. After 10 years or so, it's been all Python All The Time! Larry Wall: Something about its lexical structure appealed to me.