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> displacing PHP (which obviously no one ever uses

21% of the Internet uses Wordpress, which is built with PHP.

In this case (Wordpress), PHP is used by end users, not by programmers.

Yes, that was a bit of snark, sorry. Was hoping that would emphasize how huge of news it is that Python moved past PHP even on such an arbitrary language benchmark.

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