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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by visarga on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:42AM (#26033494)
Are you saying it was a replacement for a two year old language?

Perl - December 1987

Python - December 1989

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by dehrmann on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:56AM (#26033829)
Yes. You need to remember than neither language was relevant yet; I'd draw that line around Perl 5 and Python 2. Don't forget that Perl 6 spent two decades in development hell.

Not that the TIOBE index is perfect, but you can see what happened since 2001. Perl used to be a lot more popular for early dynamic websites and systems glue, but by 2011, Python had gotten a lot more popular in those roles.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pjmlp on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:31AM (#26034252)
Zope was winning over mod_perl back on those days.
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