In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I reported: . . . >I appreciate your clarification. I can report back that we >certainly move in different circles; I, for example, knew of >people with multi-million-dollar budgets deciding on Python- >based Web technology for *serious* applications in '96. Ruby . . . Was Python really *such* big business so long ago? Without put- ting myself out to look through my notes, and make sure of what I have permission to disclose, I can point, for instance, to <URL: http://www.opticality.com/Press/Opticality/LinuxMagazine/view >: "By October 1998, Pedhazur had invested $750,000" in Digital Cre- ations, the company behind Python-based Web framework Zope (modulo a few name changes). That's not the only case. So, yes, I repeat: Python-based Web business well beyond the scale of "parts we found in a dumpster" has been going on for a decade.
I'm ready to grant Ruby on Rails has impacted cultural awareness in a way Python doesn't yet touch. I'm not a good judge of such matters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list