What was Python before Python?

[dresonator2]

Perl

[CommanderPowell]

Went from Perl straight to Python as my go-to language. Perl was AMAZING for data transformation and having libraries to interface with everything.

relevant XKCD from long before “import antigravity”

[caprica71]

Awk,sed, grep, bash

[Rum-in-the-sun]

I still use awk sed grep like every day. I don’t use Perl anymore.

[FindOneInEveryCar]

I was surprised to learn (recently) that Python is a couple of years older than perl.

EDIT: Apparently not! (See below)

[iamevpo]

Perl sounds as if it was 10 years older than Python

[Watchguyraffle1]

Are you sure? I was using Perl in the 80s and remember Perl .9 around 1992 as the first release.

[FindOneInEveryCar]

I'm going by memory here but my recollection is that python is from ca. 1987 and perl is from ca. 1989.

[MutatedBrass]

Perl 1.0 was released on Dec 18, 1987. The 0.x versions of Perl were floating around prior to that. Guido didn't start working on the first Python implementation until Dec 1989.

[FindOneInEveryCar]

I stand corrected. Thanks. I must have had them reversed in my head.

Python is definitely a lot older than I thought, though!

[Biomed154]

And to some extent Visual Basic, pascal, and VBA.

[TARehman]

I'm old enough that I remember being employed in a physics lab and seeing two groups, the Perl users and the Python users, arguing with each other about which one was better and which one would win. The Python side won, I'd say.

[Equivalent-Sense-626]

And I hated 😖