I mean, I guess technically it started as an "educational language", but much of its early-ish development was aimed at turning it into an enterprise language t

I mean, I guess technically it started as an "educational language", but much of its early-ish development was aimed at turning it into an enterprise language that could rival Java. Guido worked for Zope Corporation from 2000-2003, Zope is a big hairy enterprisey CMS. 10-15 years ago, people at Google for a very long time toyed with the idea of making Python fast enough so they could just use it for everything, cf. Unladen Swallow. That said, it's true that Python has ended up being used in places that were not envisioned by its original creators, but the implication that it is therefore a bad fit for those settings does not automatically follow. Ruby was never meant to be a "web language" but many seem to enjoy using it that way.