For the second year running Python has been selected as the Language of the Year by Linux users:

Linux Users' Programming Languages of the Year 2008
PHP        115   13.36%
Perl        72    8.36%
Python     226   26.25%
Ruby        46    5.34%
C          114   13.24%
C++        129   14.98%
Java       106   12.31%
Lisp         9    1.05%
Erlang       4    0.46%
Smalltalk    1    0.12%
Haskell     11    1.28%
C#          19    2.21%
Lua          4    0.46%
COBOL        3    0.35%
Scheme       2    0.23%
OCaml        0    0%

Total voters:  8611 (all Linux users)

Source:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-83/programming-language-of-the-year-695662/

That's what I would have voted for. Its very easy to play with python on linux

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