[paulryanrogers]

Python was intended for education originally. It's possible that some uses are just too far outside that wheelhouse to expect it to work well forever. Doubtful I'll ever write desktop GUIs in PHP for example, though it appears some have already done it.

[Blikkentrekker]

The standard library of 2 already came with many facilities that go well beyond that.

They targeted business; it came to be adopted by business; and then they were surprised that business was not enthusiastic about updating currently working code with all the potential regressions and downtime that might come from it.

[eesmith]

Could you explain how "Python was intended for education originally."?

As I recall, Python was designed for the Amoeba operating system, and drew on experience from implementing ABC; ABC was definitely designed for education.

But ABC != Python. Checking now, the first Usenet post for Python 0.9 says:

> Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large systems, you name it.

See https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sgi/c/7r8kVgQ84j0 .

It doesn't specifically mention using Python for education.