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>It's got the talking point about Python that we were hearing about 10 years ago - "tired of those pesky curly brackets in Java, try this new language you might not have heard of: Python!"

That was a talking point closer to 20 years ago, at this point.




Pretty sure I tried both Java and Python at the end of the 90s. So more 25 years ago.


You're right, I think I was caught out by the unending march of time :)


There's a joke I saw that goes like:

   1980-2000 = "30 years ago"
   2000-2010 = "10 years ago"
   2010-2023 = "Recently




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