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Python is great for stuff which could technically be a shell script, but really shouldn't; it essentially replaced Perl.
by Jorengarenar 3y ago
Python is great for stuff which could technically be a shell script, but really shouldn't; it essentially replaced Perl.
- kqr 3y agoWhich is weird because Perl didn't really go anywhere, and only got better over time. I mean, at this point it's a large dose of network effect, but I'd love to learn how this transition happened in the early days of it. Edit: I just tried to look it up and as far back as I can find data (which is early 2000s something), it seems that Python has always been more popular than Perl. TIL!