Long Live Python!

[Kemp Randy-W18971]

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.  

-----Original Message-----
From: James_Althoff at i2.com [mailto:James_Althoff at i2.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:12 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Long Live Python!



Paul Prescod wrote:
>Java has of course outgrown its initial niche but it is hardly fair to
>compare Python to a language backed by Sun, IBM, etc. If Python had that
>kind of backing it would be as big or bigger than Java too.

On the other hand, Jython actually helps Python take *advantage* of Java's
popularity.  So Java and Python can both "win" together.

Jim