Does Python compete with Java?

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <e838aa6e.0404071426.7192e8e4 at posting.google.com>, A. Lloyd Flanagan wrote:
> Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:<c4taac$2lg0bc$1 at ID-169208.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>> 
>> I think it's a *good* thing. Python is succeeding very well
>> by just existing and actually being well designed and useful,
>> as opposed to having a large company's marketing machine trying
>> to tell everyone that it is.
> 
> Very true.  In addition, I think python will gain a lot of
> "mind-share" as more and more popular applications are written in
> python.

Over the long term, I think Python's biggest key to success will be that we
will still be able to read the programs that we are writing now.

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