Python's popularity statistics

Aaron K. Johnson akjmicro at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 11 21:39:52 EST 2002


In message <8iRJ9.1944$ce5.550 at nwrddc03.gnilink.net>, "Raymond Hettinger" wrote:

> Or, maybe, it's a marketing thing and people prefer languages
> associated with cools things like coffee, pearls, snakes, and rubies.
> Accordingly, they are neutral toward languages without logos, and,
> of course, they avoid like the plague anything that sounds like a dreaded
> disease -- (the doctor isn't sure whether you have ml, mumps,
> apl simplex 2, or just caught hermes from your last date).

I forgot to acknowlegde in my reply just how funny this above paragraph was! ;)

Cheers!
Aaron.




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