People have been using Python for way beyond what it was "originally good for" as long as I've been a programmer (close to 20 years). For some reason people se

People have been using Python for way beyond what it was "originally good for" as long as I've been a programmer (close to 20 years). For some reason people seem to think that since Python code is easy to read, that it's a "scripting language" (whatever that means). There are a lot of use cases for a language that's easy to do easy things in, and where performance doesn't really matter (or can be sorted out later.