State of Python

[Will Stuyvesant]

> [John Howard]
> Also, my local Borders bookstore has practically eliminated Python
> books from its shelves. Everything seems to be Perl and/or Java.

Same happened here in The Netherlands, with bookstores that sell books
to CS students.  The teachers are too old-fashioned and not
up-to-date.  They ask if Python has call-by-reference or
call-by-value.  If your answer is not one of these two, they are not
interested anymore and you are out.