State of Python

[John Howard]

andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.1053093147.32373.python-list at python.org>...
> python473 at yahoo.com (John Howard) writes:
> > Is it just me or have I noticed a decrease in articles in magazines,
> > etc about Python in recent months?  I regularly receive several
> 
> curious.  that's interesting to hear.  personally, i think python is
> becoming more and more popular.
> 
> i wonder if this is something particularly about magazines.  maybe
> they cover either "emerging" technologies or the mainstream, but have
> a blind-spot inbetween?  or maybe it reflects something silly like a
> couple of journalists being ill or otherwise occupied (i would guess
> that the set of journalists writing about python is small) (cameron?).
> 
> also, i wonder how much parrot will attract people away from python?is python 
> many of the things i notice about python are related to people using
> it to play with new ideas in languages.  parrot might be a more
> attractive platform for those people.
> 
> finally, i suspect python is popular enough to attract language
> zealots who will respond to this thread as personal attack.  hope
> not...
> 
> andrew

No, no, no ....this is definitely not an attack on python.  I am an
advocate of it.  I have taught programming classes in COBOL, FORTRAN,
Basic, and Pascal. I have done production work in Perl, C, piopen
BASIC, and python.  Python is the best thing I have seen.  It's
sparse, oo, and "agile".  That is why I asked the question.  The
python home page does not seem to have had any new "where is python
being used?" entries for a while.

I agree that the real test is how many schools are teaching python.  I
know of none (there may be some - I am saying I know of none). How
many text books, eg, are based on python?

I am inpressed with the number of responses I got so quickly.  At
least people are reading this newsgroup!

Best regards,

John