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- Subject: Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:20:41 -0300
> On a recent thread ("Dead Batteries" ) I argued that Lua lost terrain over
> Python.
>
> I won't bother anyone repeating what I already said, but I stumbled on this
> article which may explain something:
>
> https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/
1970: PL/I will be the language to rule them all.
1980: Ada will be the language to rule them all.
(1990: C++ will be the language to rule them all.)
2000: Java will be the language to rule them all.
2010: JavaScript will be the language to rule them all.
2020: Python will be the language to rule them all.
The dogs bark, the caravan marches on.
-- Roberto
