Comment by sureaboutthis

> ...the Central Intelligence Agency has used it for hacking, Google for crawling webpages, Pixar for producing movies and Spotify for recommending songs.

This statement gives articles and journalism like this a bad name. It's as misleading as you can get as it gives the impression Python would be the main language for these jobs and nothing could be further from the truth. I'm sure it participates in some way, directly or indirectly, but doesn't perform the main function.

And then we get this:

> Fortran, Lisp and Ada were all highly popular in the 1980s and 1990s

Which may be true for Fortran and maybe even Ada in defense or government but Lisp? I don't think so.