Ben Sizer wrote: > Ray wrote: > >>Just that it's a big, huge, humongous pity to see Python keeps missing >>the big thing over and over again. Last time when biotechnology was >>hot, which language became The Language? Perl. Now simple web app is >>hot? It's Ruby. > > > The problem is that Python is the 2nd best language for everything. ;) > As a general purpose language I don't think it can be beaten, but for > almost any given project of non-trivial size, there seems to always be > one language that has better support for the subject. I frequently find > myself wanting to use Python but being unable to, often due to some > library being unavailable, as in your case. >
Is it a bad thing? In my opinion it is better to be 2nd place for a long time than get to the top and fall short after that. Because then Python will be associated with certain thing (like Ruby with Rails, Java with Beans, C with two pluses, Fortran with 77 ;-) Its healthy for a Pythons to live in many different ecosystems. Regards, Roman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
