Python is "the other scripting language". It is more elegant and better suited to larger projects than its sibling Perl.
Check it out at 
http://www.python.org and also the Python Wiki http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/.
The import script for the wiki was written in python, have a look (at my appauling code): http://coders.meta.net.nz/conv.py
Note also his "appauling" spelling! ;) -- GreigMcGill
Dammit, Greig! I'm a programming, not a dictionary -- 
PerryLorier
Was that irony? ;) -- GreigMcGill
44 pages link to Python:
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