Daniel Kluev <dan.kl...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM, John J Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): > > How come pony is not listed there? Language cannot be better than > python without pony!
Pony, absolutely. I took that as read. >> * An even larger user base, contributing more and better free and >> commercial software. [...] > As there is rather heavy inertia in software development community, > expecting some language to acquire "even larger user base" is > hopeless. I did say I was prepared to compromise on that one. After all, when I started using Python it was a lot smaller that it is now. If a language is good enough to tempt me away from Python, probably the same is true for other people too -- as it was with Python a decade or so ago. > Also, most of these complaints could be solved by using correct python > dialect for particular task - RPython, Cython and so on. Different topic. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list