python a bust?

[Emile van Sebille]

Brandon J. Van Every:
> All surveys I've ever seen about language use have roughly the same
orders
> of magnitude, and most are much less generous to Python than 8%.
> Truthfully, people will not buy more Python books until Python is
used more
> prevailantly.
>
> That's where real marketing efforts "like the big boys" come in.
The Python
> community can either grow the market for the language, or it can
atrophize
> and be regarded as a has-been 5 years from now.
>

Hmmm...

That 8% sounds familiar...  something about Apple's market share in
PCs 10-15 years ago or Sony's in TVs about the same time.  Python
should be as much a has-been in 10-15 years.

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Emile van Sebille
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