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Hm, it seems obvious that Guido and Python have more impact on the industry (and I'm aware of Burrows' antipathy toward Python, which was well known at Google. As far as I remember it was due to debugging a syntax error caused by indentation in SWIG/Python)

JPL and Google were early Python users. Google's crawler and the home page started out in Python (trivia: the ancient asyncore stdlib module and its author played some role, as far as I remember)

Pretty much all AI and self driving cars use Python, BitTorrent was written in Python, Python is embedded in GDB, embedded in huge commercial applications like Maya for visual effects, etc. I think Ethereum had an early Python implementation

Python's design achieved Guy Steele's "growing a language" vision in his famous talk, i.e. using operator overloading to allow scientists to create their own lingua franca -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29171519 (i.e. the talk was about adding operator overloading to Java, as well "generics" and value types)

Mike Burrows is a great (even legendary) programmer and computer scientist, but if you're talking about "impact on the industry", there are levels :) I have to say I'm a big Alta Vista fan though