alternative to python

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i remember two languages (of many) we had back in my mainframe days:  Fortran and PL/1.  someone wrote a program the supposedly made it easier to select the compiler and run it, by scanning the program source code to figure out the language.  he was claiming a 100% correct detection for valid code.  so i wrote a program that compiled correctly under both compilers (and did the same thing either way: just copy a file).  he was afraid to let his program scan mine.