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Python was easy to read and write. Network effects did the rest. Perl6 was a much greater mess than Python3. I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.
by dataminded 9mo ago
Python was easy to read and write. Network effects did the rest.
Perl6 was a much greater mess than Python3.
I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.
- zahlman 9mo ago> I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better. As you say, > Network effects did the rest. In an alternate set of universes, Ruby has Python's current position, and you are wondering why Python didn't take off. (But I suspect Ruby evolved fairly differently in those cases.) The universes where both are popular are much rarer.