[ Thanks to BeOpen
for this link. ]
“I love Python. Of the 10-15 programming languages I know,
Python is the only language which I actually look forward to using.
I wake up in the morning, ask myself, “Will I be using Python
today?” and if the answer is “yes” I know that it’s going to be a
good day.”
“And yet, I worry that using Python can actually marginalize a
programmer. Python is hard to beat for writing applications
that run on a single computer. But that’s yesterday’s computing
model. The future of computing, heck, the present of computing, is
in writing programs that run through a web browser. And the
fact of the matter is that 99% of web browsers surfing the internet
run Java and JavaScript, which gives these languages a huge
advantage over Python, an advantage that Python’s superior design
may not be able to overcome. I have Ada-programming friends who
mumble about Ada’s superiority over C++; that may be the case, but
does it really matter anymore?”