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Ditto with Ruby and web dev. The language was never designed with that application in mind (and very few people used it for that when I got into Ruby around 200
by senderista 5y ago
Ditto with Ruby and web dev. The language was never designed with that application in mind (and very few people used it for that when I got into Ruby around 2000). Path dependence mostly accounts for the ubiquity of Python in science and Ruby in web dev; it just as easily could have gone the other way around.