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I don't know how I feel about that. We're talking about subjective measurements here. There are many languages that are "better" than JavaScript for example, y

• oblio 9y ago
  That's why I chose my words carefully in the previous comment. Perl and Python are perfectly comparable regarding origin, corporate backing, marketing, platform restrictions, etc. Javascript isn't. Perl and Python were both started by a BDFL, acquired a grass-roots community that promoted them and never really had 1 major corporate backer or sponsor that outshined all the others. They also didn't become the main or even the only suppported language for a platform. They had a really similar trajectory, just with different peaks. Perl peaked earlier and IMO lower.