[Chicago] Python Hype

[Don Sheu]

Paul Graham's blog post, "Python Paradox," was August 2004. Might help with
some of the anchors in your hype curve.

http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Michael Tamillow <
mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have looked at that Gartner hype curve before and other Gartner tools
> and am fully convinced that Gartner is a $7.3 billion dollar company that
> just makes up stuff and then brands it effectively.
>
> I think this falls perfectly in line with what Data Science is all about.
> Looks awesome!
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> "So if I were to position Python at the peak, which I'm not going to
>> spoil the results you will see at my talk, then it would be right on
>> "Activity beyond early adopters", and before "Negative press begins"."
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>> The "problem" with Python (if you can call it that) is that it is
>> mature technology. It's not like a Unicorn whose weaknesses have yet
>> to be revealed. To the extent that there is negative press, it
>> happened a long time ago. The big problems are/were the GIL and
>> general performance (hard to optimize). Projects like PyPy, Nuitka,
>> Cython and others are making headway in these areas I think. Future
>> negative press will probably only emerge if all of them flop.
>>
>> Just my 2¢
>>
>> Skip
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