Does Python compete with Java?

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

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.