UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice

[Aahz]

In article <vu8e00v7al46b at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>The people who have switched don't post here. I'm very active
>on the XP mailing list, and I see lots more references to Ruby than
>to Python. Maybe the fact that such industry heavy hitters as Robert
>Martin, David Thomas, and any number of others have switched
>shouldn't count. In fact, the head of this thread should really be a
>wakeup call: the *only* reason that Python was chosen instead
>of Ruby is the lack of *current* market penetration.

AFAIK, those are all people who were never heavy Python users.  We're
still getting plenty of people switching to Python instead of Ruby,
largely because there are more killer applications written in Python.
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