Article on the future of Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:08:24 -0700, rusi wrote:

> On Sep 27, 5:11 pm, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>>
>> <steve+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a
>> > response:
>>
>> >http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine
>>
>> Summary of that article:
>>
>> "Sure, you have all these legitimate concerns, but look, cake!"
>>
>> -- Devin
> 
> My summary of the first (worried about python) article: Python is about
> to miss the Bell's law bus:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Law_of_Computer_Classes


Except that very concept is stupid. Mainframes have not be replaced. 
There are more mainframes around today than fifty years ago. 
Minicomputers too, only we don't call them minicomputers, we call them 
"servers".

In ten years time, there will be more desktop PCs around than now. Most 
of them will be in the 90% of the world that isn't America. And most of 
them will be laptops. But they'll be used as desktops too. Not everybody 
wants to read email on a device smaller than your hand, clumsily poking 
at a tiny virtual keyboard.

And anybody who thinks that Python can't run on tablets or smartphones 
hasn't been paying attention.


-- 
Steven