Interesting to note the progression: Python was initially another scripting / better shell to rival Perl, but it took a long time to do so. It didn't really be

Interesting to note the progression: Python was initially another scripting / better shell to rival Perl, but it took a long time to do so. It didn't really become popular until way later than a lot of other languages. I think this was mainly due to it's libraries, lightweight for beginners and being used in all kinds of different places. Ruby was really only know as "with Rails" for a lot of people and there are a lot of use cases other than web dev. C 1972 Bourne Shell 1979 Perl 1987 Python 1991 Javascript 1995 Ruby 1995 Java 1995