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> And Python got popular cause of LLM AI thing. Not really, Python got popular in 2000s because it was the only sane of the three choices - Perl, Python, TCL.
by js8 1y ago
> And Python got popular cause of LLM AI thing.
Not really, Python got popular in 2000s because it was the only sane of the three choices - Perl, Python, TCL. You must be young.
- pjmlp 1y agoThe magic word for Python's fame is Zope, the respective article on Dr. Dobbs, until then I never noticed it.
- vkazanov 1y agoZope is sooo 2000s! This is the first time ever I see somebody mention the framework I've spent a few years of my life with!
- js8 1y agoThere has been several other events like that (Django, Pandas and data science..). I don't think Python's popularity can be ascribed to any single event, it just happens to be a language that is reasonably close to pseudocode with an excellently thought-out (I mean best in the industry) standard library. Python is practical, first and foremost. That's why it won, unlike other languages it doesn't really have an ideological agenda.
- pjmlp 1y agoZope predates all of those, and slowly as you say people got interested and started using it for other stuff, like being a better Perl. Python has an agenda as well, Guido has said multiple times it was a language designed for teaching programming, and one of the reasons Zen of Python came early on.