Why Python needs Evangelizing

[Gary D. Duzan]

   Rabid evangelists don't help for the very reason that they
come across as rabid, and therefore easily dismissed for their
lunatic fringe ideas. What Python really needs is basically what
it is getting: more and more Real People solving Real Problems
with Python Really Easily, and then telling other people about
it. Just add a little emphasis the the last bit and we're set.

					Gary Duzan
					GTE Laboratories


jerry_spicklemire at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Python Fans,
> 
> This may be the last time that I know _the_answer_
> to a question that shows up here, so I'd better
> make the most of it.
> 
>   Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>
> writes:
> >
> > > Vetle Roeim <vetler at news.ifi.uio.no> writes:
> > > Unfortunately, one of the best features of the
> python community is
> > > that it seems to have a sane group of people
> in it who know multiple
> > > languages and will choose appropriate ones for
> the appropriate task.
> > > We need more rabid, unabashed evangelists. :-)
> >
> > Why?
> 
> Yeah, that's the one. The reason I can tell you
> why evangelists are needed, oh exalted gurus and
> wizards ("We're not worthy!"), is that I am most
> certainly not. You may all have binary
> chromosomes, but the grim truth is most bitheads
> are more like me. We are just lucky to be able to
> do anything that folks pay money for at the start
> of the twentyfirst century, however poorly. We are
> the subsistence farmers of the Web Wide World.
> 
> That's why Python is even more important, and
> absolutely essential to me. I NEED Python very
> badly, and so does the seemingly endless throng of
> mediocre coders. Most of us will never transcend
> our own feeble limits, but Guido gave us a tool
> that let's us get stuff done anyhow. It's really
> just as simple as that.
> 
> You guys are glad to have found another great
> language, one among many, and know exactly when
> and how to use it. The rest of us are struggling
> through CS101 with C++, Java, and the rest. That's
> right, Pascal is dead, Basic is an historical
> footnote. These days they start kids out with C++
> and Java because students want to learn "job
> skills". It's no accident that Visual Basic is so
> popular, in the real world of workaday
> programming!
> 
> The reason Python needs more rabid evangelists is
> because so many still don't know it exists. "Never
> heard of it", that's what thay say every time I
> mention Python to a newbie. They don't even know
> had much they need it, and that's a crying shame.
> 
> Don't hold your breath for any mind blowing code
> to emerge from this corner, but you can bet
> your last billion that I'll keep touting Python to
> anyone who betrays the faintest glimmer of
> interest, and even some who don't!
> 
> Say Hallelujah!
> Jerry S.
> 
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