[BangPypers] Guido steps down

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/ Not sure, if this is a April fool joke! ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] MIT moving from Scheme to Python

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[BangPypers] RPython - A faster python than C?

? Any hands on experience? Thanks and Regards Indrajith K ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Python grows in 2007

Number of packages to a good extent can be taken as a indicator of the reach of the language (though it makes sense more to languages like python, perl, ruby etc). Perl has a long history. CPAN has almost every thing you require. The growth won't be really feeble, still number of packages for perl

Re: [BangPypers] Python grows in 2007

Its nice to see Python moving up the ladder. But it has to be seen how to interpret this statistics. The word "popular" if I could make out is rated by its presence in the internet. The web site clearly mentions "Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the languag