Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:21, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>

One pattern is obvious - the golden age of scripting languages is
here. Text has won over binary.