On Feb 1, 2005, at 16:35, Paul Hartley wrote:
When I was a member of the Forth Interest Group in the USA we learned that Forth was used on the buggy that went to mars, that it started life controlling huge radio telescopes which only had 4k (yes 4k) of memory for both language and application.
Anything like the above concerning python would be useful.
Well, that's probably not as awe-inspiring, but BitTorrent is written entirely in Python (with the wxPython graphical toolkit for the Windows and X11 versions, and PyObjC for the Mac OS X version). Google also use the language extensively, although I don't exactly know why, thanks to their obsession with secrecy.
You could point out that Python's greatest strength (aside from its extreme readability -- unlike most people, The Whitespace Thing always struck me as an excellent design decision, although had I been Guido, I'd have forced the use of either tabs or spaces but not allowed both) is the fact that it's multi-paradigm. You can work procedurally, object-orientedly, and even in some cases functionally. And you can mix-and-match those 3 paradigms depending on your needs. This can be very useful.
Oh, and make sure you mention iterators and list comprehensions at some point.
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