On Sep 28, 5:54 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:08:24 -0700, rusi wrote: > > On Sep 27, 5:11 pm, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano > > >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a > >> > response: > > >> >http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine > > >> Summary of that article: > > >> "Sure, you have all these legitimate concerns, but look, cake!" > > >> -- Devin > > > My summary of the first (worried about python) article: Python is about > > to miss the Bell's law bus: > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Law_of_Computer_Classes > > Except that very concept is stupid. Mainframes have not be replaced. > There are more mainframes around today than fifty years ago. > Minicomputers too, only we don't call them minicomputers, we call them > "servers". > > In ten years time, there will be more desktop PCs around than now. Most > of them will be in the 90% of the world that isn't America. And most of > them will be laptops. But they'll be used as desktops too. Not everybody > wants to read email on a device smaller than your hand, clumsily poking > at a tiny virtual keyboard. > > And anybody who thinks that Python can't run on tablets or smartphones > hasn't been paying attention. > > -- > Steven
It would be good to pay attention before calling others to pay attention. http://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infographic-june-2012/email-client-market-share-june-2012 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list