[Novalug] Why Python
James Ewing Cottrell III
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sun Jul 21 16:43:25 EDT 2013
On 7/21/2013 3:33 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Ewing Cottrell III
> <JECottrell3@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Because Perl got their First, it took Python that much longer to catch
>> on and for people to see the Benefit.
>
> Keep in mind, the first web browser was (basically) '92, so the only
> people that knew any difference were those in schools.
>
> Though it could be that perl is just the best tool for the job - the end :)
Not Quite True, but you are on the right track. The only people who knew
were on either [1] Usenet or [2] The Internet.
The former group was indeed largely composed of Students or ex-students,
while the latter group consisted of Universities, the Government, the
Military, and Contractors having anything to do with the Internet or the
last two groups.
And so while those of us who were lucky enough to be on the Internet
directly (I was at NBS from 1984 thru 1989 and UUNet from 1990 thru
1992) could simply FTP what we wanted, there was a UseNet Group called
net.sources which sent all the GNU stuff, Perl, Python, and just about
anything distributed by source, around every day.
JIM
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