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Not to dis on anybody here but you did rather make my point for me. I was only trying to draw a distinction between Comercially sussessfull progamming languages such as the large 3 or 5 depending who you listen to (some still include COBOL yech!) And mainstream languages from an academic point of view. Ie fully featured, developed examined, strong, elegant, trustworthy, brave clean, and reverent.
Sure if Python had the backing of Sun or Microsoft or ATT or Bell Labs (you get the point) Python would be right up there in the mainstream commercially also.
On the reverse side if Java was developed by some guy named Guido in his sack in the Netherlands and put out with a bunch of his pals online using the budjet of a frat drinking club then we might never know it existed.