In article <h4gnmr$8c...@news.eternal-september.org>, Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> wrote: >On 2009-07-25 00:55:26 -0400, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> said: >> >> But please don't put it on the same level as PHP. Their situations >> have almost nothing in common. > >Their situations have much in common; Python attracted programmers away >from (for example) C++, becuse python is easier to master; Then php >came along and attracted programmers away from (for example) python, >because php is easier to master.
No, Python attracted programmers away from C++ because it's easier to write good programs in it, in less time. There are plenty of expert C++ programmers who switched to Python; your thesis only applies to the legions of people who found it difficult to learn C++ in the first place. Moreover, AFAIK PHP never attracted people away from Python; Python was not particularly popular when PHP was in its heyday. PHP attracted people away from Perl and Java and C++. I'm curious, do you actually know Python at all? Have you used it for a serious project? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)" --Michael Foord paraphrases Christian Muirhead on python-dev, 2009-03-22 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
