I definately think it was Perl 6, it's a small sample, but around 2002 me and some friends needed to learn a scripting language -- the obvious choices were Perl 5, Ruby or Python (2 at that point). If you searched for Perl, you just found things that said "Perl 6, ground up rewrite, coming soon!". I honestly assumed I'd pick up Perl 6 when it came out, and started with Python in the mean time.