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Funny how Python is considered esoteric by author when Python is amongst the oldest of languages in widespread use then (2004). - C++ 1985 - Perl 1987 - Visu
by deafpolygon 4y ago
Funny how Python is considered esoteric by author when Python is amongst the oldest of languages in widespread use then (2004).
- C++ 1985
- Perl 1987
- Visual Basic 1991
- Python 1991
- JavaScript 1995
- Ruby 1995
- Java 1995
- PHP 1995
- C# 2000
Back in 2004, despite how small Python was - it was still in the top 10, just past Delphi. - Java dominated, followed by PHP.
- babarock 4y agoI don't know how popular the language was, but I distinctly remember it was seen as unfit for "enterprise" work. This was a time where the Serious devs would do SOAP, CORBA and other boilerplate-heavy RPC. Python was always branded "bad performance because of PIL", because multi-threading was gonna be the future anyway. I don't know how popular Python was, but I remember it was a "toy" language, and when Reddit rewrote their whole website in it a few years later (2005? 2007?) it was seen as a bold risky move.
- pjmlp 4y agoIn 2000, plenty of enterprises were adopting Python to replace Perl, and doing CMS based on Zope. During the late 90's there was a DDJ issue dedicated to Python. The first Python version I used at work was 1.6.