why isn't python more popular?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <16359f71.09c6d5fa at usw-ex0104-031.remarq.com>,
sp00fd  <sp00fdNOspSPAM at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>Your mention of perl being installed already on certain machines caught
>my eye as well.  This is a large reason why I often stick to KornShell,
>but now with Solaris and AIX shipping with perl, I fear that it may
>become more of a standard that it is today.  I have to admit that I use
>perl, often when I'm doing a lot of text parsing, but in the back of
>my mind I know that python is a much better language.  For me though,
>the argument that it's more readable/maintainable doesn't work because
>there are more people that I work with that have and idea about perl
>than python.

Unless those people have Perl as their *only* programming language, I
bet that most of them would find reading *other* people's Python
programs easier to read than other people's Perl programs, after only
one day of training in Python.
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