Why isn't Python king of the hill?

Thu May 24 11:43:45 EDT 2001

Helen Dawson <helend at accessone.com> writes:

> I think debugger weakness is one problem. PythonWin seems to be
> best of the bunch, and it's a pretty spiffy IDE, but has some serious
> debugging weaknesses.

While this is certainly a problem, it cannot explain the attention
that Java gets over Python. When Java was young, debugging support was
terrible also - yet it got attention from companies developing
debuggers.

Regards,
Martin