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Python has been in use since before I graduated college. I supported a code base written in Python at event Microsoft back then (they acquired a company that w
by taude 4y ago
Python has been in use since before I graduated college. I supported a code base written in Python at event Microsoft back then (they acquired a company that wrote their product in Python, and then ported it over to C++/COM). We all had one of the something like 1.4 O'Reilly books, even.
And I think one person from the team went on to write/support/somehow be involved in Subversion SCM (which was heavily written in Python).
....so Python has been around, used in product, by large companies, for a long time. I don't see it going anywhere in the next 20 years.
- mfuzzey 4y agoI think you probably mean mercurial (hg) which is indeed written in python. Subversion (svn) is written in C. Mercurial actually wasn't a bad choice at the beginning of the DVCS era on Windows as git didn't work well on that platform initially.