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I don’t really think it’s true. Haskell was released one year before Python.

• acdha 8y ago
  Please note that I said mainstream. Haskell took a long time to mature into its modern form, add the general features a mainstream language needs, stable performance & memory usage, etc. Even now it’s generally considered one of the more difficult languages to learn and something of a niche commercially. That’s not a slight against the language — they were focused on other goals — but for a long time the conventional wisdom was that it was interesting for CS research and learning but not normal application development whereas you could get quite a lot of work done reasonably in Python at least one decade, probably two, earlier.