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Re:How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML an... by Silhouette on Sunday May 06, 2012 @05:16PM (#3936356)
Perhaps you are putting too much emphasis on the Python world's support for programming web apps. Python is also a good programming language for many of the jobs we used to use Perl for, but with much cleaner syntax in a lot of cases and with more batteries included. That is how many of us first discovered it.
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Re:How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML an... by middayc on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:01PM (#3936911)
Maybe, because now I really see everyone around uses it (and mostly in relation to django).

But as I also said, Python had a lot of libraries back then 10 years ago when I used it with Zope, WxWidgets, PyGame, CherryPy, ...

And in last paragraph I try to say exactly what you said in relation to Perl and other languages of this kind.

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