Python can't be called as a dead language as it serves a variety of applications. Python offers many choices for web development: Frameworks such as Django and Pyramid. read more
Cobol, fortran, Ada, C, csh, sh, (even Matlab which isn’t really a language) they all still exist in old systems and until those systems are retired, the language and need for those programmers will exist.The support for the language may be gone, but the language still exists. read more
Dating from 1991, the Python programming language was considered a gap-filler, a way to write scripts that “ automate the boring stuff ” (as one popular book on learning Python put it) or to rapidly prototype applications that will be implemented in other languages. read more