why isn't python more popular?

[Courageous]

sp00fd wrote:
> 
> I'm curious, it seems to me that _A LOT_ of people recognize
> python as a well done, practical language.  I occassionally
> browse the scheme or perl or java newsgroups (etc..) and I often
> see python mentioned as being a great language, so why don't I
> see more companies using python.

Language adoption is a slow process, unless you're a Major
Power (tm) like Sun and you spend millions of dollars advertising
the language. Python is seeing steady growth, and is becoming
quite popular. If it had a native compiler that could approach
the speed of lisp compilers, I suspect that it's growth rate
with double or more. It's a truly fantastic environment.



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