>if you were using Python 10+ years ago, when Perl was more >popular, you would find that statement very surprising I am not sure why do you correlate populari

>if you were using Python 10+ years ago, when Perl was more >popular, you would find that statement very surprising I am not sure why do you correlate popularity with being 'institution-centric'. The thing is that the philosophy behind Python is very institution friendly (where institution can be academic or enterprise) and Perl's philosophy appeals to a very specific hackers subculture, but none of that has anything to do with popularity. Perl was popular because it sucked less than the alternatives for CGI 20 years ago. Python benefits from its vast set of libraries to the point that sometimes feels more like a Lego language rather than that a general purpose programming language. Again, I don't see the correlation of that with the fact that might be coder or institution centric.