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Re:Ask HN: Why does the enterprise have such a strong affini... by icebraining on Saturday July 26, 2014 @05:55PM (#8090936)
When Java came out, there was no Python or Ruby.

Python is four years older than Java. When the latter was released, Python was already at 1.0.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does the enterprise have such a strong affini... by zorked on Saturday July 26, 2014 @06:01PM (#8090958)
Traction, of course. Perl and TCL were far more popular when Java was exploding.
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