It's interesting that Python is as old as Java. Most languages either succeed by immediate take-off or fail. Python, on the other hand, led a quite "dead" lif

It's interesting that Python is as old as Java. Most languages either succeed by immediate take-off or fail. Python, on the other hand, led a quite "dead" life for its first _decade_ . As the article says, Perl and tcl were all the rage back then. All of a sudden, in the past 15 years, its use exploded.