[BangPypers] Regarding Python popularity

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Monday 08 Feb 2010 4:17:23 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> So to put it simply - there is no simple cut and dry answer. If you look
> beyond the Marketing and a bit of the resultant herd mentality, you will
> realise that most languages have a good sweetspot they manage to excel at.
> And thats what drives popularity
> 

excellent answer - but you should add that choice of language and platform is 
most often done by suits without domain knowledge and on extraneous 
considerations
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/