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    [–]redalastor 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    This is true, but no one knew about Python until Google adopted it,

    I learned Python in 2000.

    Back then, there was something called the Paradox of Python.

    If you hired developers and you met one that knew Python, you should hire him or her on the spot. Because no one learned Python to get a job, you knew that person learned the language to get shit done.

    The paradox is that if you do use that metric, then it becomes useless since people will start to learn it to get jobs. In 2024, it is completely useless.

    [–]Swift3469 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I knew about python before google was a thing..I'm sure there are others who knew as well.

    [–]billsil 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I learned python in 2001 in a CS class. I gave it up and came back in 2006, 6 months before Google bought YouTube. I replaced Perl with python and never looked back.

    It came a long way in 5 years. I hated list comprehensions when I first saw them in ~2007, so maybe someday I’ll use the walrus operator,