python a bust?

[Anand Pillai]

In the ideal "techie makes decisions" world this would have
been a good thing. But not in the real world where the Suits
make decisions in corporates. 

There might have been thousands of books published in C/C++
language and they have all helped to popularize it in one
or the other way. Contrast, in the python world we have one
Alex Martelli, one Wesley Chun, one David Mertz, really
countable by hand.

There is a limit to how much a single person can evangelize
a language. Questions similar to what the O.P posted arise
from the listeners. 

I would prefer to see more books on Python though they all might
be useless from a pure techie point of view. Let us have
a book on Software Projects in python for example. It might not
have the technical superiority of a Martelli book, but more 
attempts like that will save the language and help the 
eyeball factor, which is so important in practical marketing.

-Anand

afriere at yahoo.co.uk (Asun Friere) wrote in message news:<38ec68a6.0311132310.630e10e2 at posting.google.com>...
> python473 at yahoo.com (John Howard) wrote in message news:<9eabe547.0311131610.4dd7819c at posting.google.com>...
> > I've sent several messages over the last year asking about python - 
> > Who teaches python? Is python losing steam? etc. I have noticed, eg,
> > the declinng number of books at my local borders. The last time I
> > visited a borders (last week), there was 1 (sic) book about python on
> > the shelve compared to dozens on perl & java!
> 
> 
> If you were developing in Java or Perl maybe you would need dozens of
> books.  But Python is so elegant and intuitive a single one will do.
> ;)