Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > In 2009, Robert Martin gave a talk at RailsConf titled "What Killed > Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0
That's an hour-long video; could someone who's watched it give a brief summary? Meanwhile, there's this: http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html "Retiring Python as a Teaching Language" tl;dr: he's switched to recommending Javascript as a first language instead of Python, since JS makes it easier to write graphics and games, which is what lots of beginners are interested in now. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list