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by lenkite 1458 days ago
Python beat Perl in the 90s-2010 era thanks to its readability which was always advertised as a supreme advantage. Of-course Python 3.x is more complex, but even as an occasional Python user who doesn't like Python that much, I can still dive into an OSS python project and understand what its doing with little prep or Googling needed.

Can't really say that for most programming languages with the exception of Go.