Long Live Python!

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> That is a good point.  Why are some open source and free efforts popular and
> others not?  Apache is popular because it was the only thing going at the
> time, and now it runs 60 per cent of the world's servers.  Linux started out
> as a one man show, and became popular because it's a free Unix system, and
> Unix is much better then Win doze.  And Perl came bundled with Unix, so when
> CGI first came around, Unix Administrators were called upon to write CGI
> modules.  And yes -- Java is the precious child of Sun -- and Sun has gotten
> other major players, such as IBM and Oracle, to support the J2EE
> infrastructure.  Now if only Python can have a lucky break.

   By some strange magic industry and/or society always choose a worst
available solution. Consider x86 architecture, Windoze, Perl, Java, GNOME
and KDE.
   Python is just too good to win. Long live Python!

Oleg.
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