Is Python the Esperanto of programming languages?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Is a Python user anyone who uses any piece of software where even a single 
> Python bytecode is executed, or is a Python user someone who writes Python 
> source code, or is a Python user anyone who downloads or installs a copy of
> a Python install package or .rpm?

I think the analog of a speaker of a natural language would
have to be a programmer, not just someone who uses a program
written in that language.

And as for being a former but not currently active user --
once you've discovered Python, why would you ever want
to stop? :-)

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg