There was 3 reasons for python success : it's easiness, it's price and the most ...

lblume · 2025-01-13T12:52:55 1736772775

What do you mean by "price"? The language and its interpreter are free, but so are most languages from its time, so what are you referring to exactly?

red_admiral · 2025-01-13T13:06:59 1736773619

That's the point of the joke. If it had cost money, it would never have become as popular.

poulpy123 · 2025-01-13T18:11:28 1736791888

yeah I mean the price of 0$/€/any currency. And not all languages were free, especially one of the main place where python encountered first the success that made it so big was in the universities and in research, were software like matlab, mathematica, IDL or maple were (very expensive) kings before.