Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by bmitc on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:16AM
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> I think Python was popular as a general-purpose language first.
Is that true? My understanding was that it was a scripting language first (still is), but then got taken up by data and science people and various other niches. Then some education books and courses, like the Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and later MIT and other university adopters. And all of that began to snowball where Python was either the only or main language people knew, so they started using it for everything indiscriminately.
Is that true? My understanding was that it was a scripting language first (still is), but then got taken up by data and science people and various other niches. Then some education books and courses, like the Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and later MIT and other university adopters. And all of that began to snowball where Python was either the only or main language people knew, so they started using it for everything indiscriminately.