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by anthonyb 4572 days ago
Well, that was the parent's point:

PHP, heavily used in production, godawful language.

Perl, heavily used in production, godawful language, but at least it's not PHP.

Python, heavily used in production, pretty good language most of the time. (It's refactoring effort is Python 3, but ended up not changing very much.)