That's not true. We were using Python 1.5.2 at a well-funded startup I was at from 2000-2007. We were an early cloud provider and maybe 1/3rd of our customers w

That's not true. We were using Python 1.5.2 at a well-funded startup I was at from 2000-2007. We were an early cloud provider and maybe 1/3rd of our customers were using Python. This was in the 3-tier stack days and Zope was fairly popular for the application server. The internal tooling we built was mostly in Python.