I scripted in C for the longest time, after thousands of lines it was in muscle memory, and I could reuse boilerplate. I was profoundly embarrassed to then discover Perl; I felt late to the party, like I'd thawed out of a glacier.

Then Python, which stuck. I tried various lisps, Haskell, Ruby, Lua for scripting, and kept returning to Python.

I realized Python was truly boring, and I needed scripting to be fun, to keep my interest up. I relearned Ruby. Ruby is fun.

http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...

I had three worksites and I also had a few pet projects that would go on 100 computers. Python failed at every level (So did Haskell). I learned Racket just to improve my programming (It did) I then was like let's see how Racket works and it worked perfectly. I was able to deploy my programs and I never had an issue.