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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by rmbyrro on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:15AM (#28521753)
Java and the JVM had considerable marketing investiment to become a popular choice among the enterprise segment.

Python was taught in many universities for its flat learning curve, then started to be used in academic research.

Even without an unrelated platform, like JS and the browser, they had something to catapult their adoption.

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by masklinn on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:43AM (#28521949)
> Python was taught in many universities for its flat learning curve, then started to be used in academic research.

Python was used in academia long before it was used for teaching. “Courting” scientists was done from extremely early on in the language history (matrix-sig was founded in 1995) and the “extended” indexing added at their request (auto-tupling and slicing predate PEPs as those were introduced for and by Python 2).

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