I decided to start learning python for 2 reasons: #A The white-space is wonderful - you can't code unreadable code. #B I noticed that just about every application I use has extensions written in python.
Although it isn't as "cool" as ruby, it certainly has been in widespread use longer. I think that job postings inflate apparant popularity. For example if you look up jobs for "Flex developers", you'll see a lot of posts. There are a lot of people that hear the buzz and they think that they want a programmer with that skill, but in reality what they should be looking for is a java dev who is willing to learn flex because there just aren't that many poeple that know flex yet). I imagine the same is true of ruby. Also worthy of mention: I've seen python pre-installed on consumer HP desktops (I think as part of a backup/restore script, but I'm not sure) I would believe that python is in the top 5 for sure. AJ ONeal
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