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Funny how Python is considered esoteric by author when Python is amongst the oldest of languages in widespread use then (2004).

- C++ 1985

- Perl 1987

- Visual Basic 1991

- Python 1991

- JavaScript 1995

- Ruby 1995

- Java 1995

- PHP 1995

- C# 2000

Back in 2004, despite how small Python was - it was still in the top 10, just past Delphi. - Java dominated, followed by PHP.

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I don't know how popular the language was, but I distinctly remember it was seen as unfit for "enterprise" work. This was a time where the Serious devs would do SOAP, CORBA and other boilerplate-heavy RPC. Python was always branded "bad performance because of PIL", because multi-threading was gonna be the future anyway.

I don't know how popular Python was, but I remember it was a "toy" language, and when Reddit rewrote their whole website in it a few years later (2005? 2007?) it was seen as a bold risky move.

In 2000, plenty of enterprises were adopting Python to replace Perl, and doing CMS based on Zope.

During the late 90's there was a DDJ issue dedicated to Python.

The first Python version I used at work was 1.6.

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