> did anyone ever actually say this? Wordperfect is famous for failing because they sticked to assembly while the competition moved to C. > this one is odd to

> did anyone ever actually say this? Wordperfect is famous for failing because they sticked to assembly while the competition moved to C. > this one is odd to me considering Python came first... It is indeed. But date of creation has no importance in this. Java became popular first, and is faster and consume less memory than Python. I'm a Python dev now, and I when I picked up the language more than a decade ago, people where looking at me like I was crazy.