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Use tools for their proper purpose.

Java was originally designed for programming embedded devices. Python was originally designed as a teaching language. One anecdote suggests that Lisp's original designers always intended to add syntax to the language.

Perhaps a decade after a language's invention it's possible to discuss its current suitability and design for specific tasks more than its original design intent.

(I consider PHP's relative ease of deployment over everything else far more explanatory of its ubiquity than any original design intent.)