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by ivanhoe 2952 days ago
IMO Python won primarily because its syntax was more English-like, which makes it a lot easier and more readable to regular people who never worked with shell and linux, and perl's $#@%>> and regExps confused the hell of them. That and the boom of PHP killed Perl 5 popularity, while python got its foot in the door in science/finance niches and survived.