.cgi or .cgp or .py or ?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
> >    (I am a bit exagerating here, but really not too much. Promoting Python
> > is very important in the world full of other damn P* languages :)
>
> Now, now.  I thought comp.lang.python was so much more well-adjusted and
> fair than this.  =)  You can at least take comfort in the fact that the
> mass majority of P*** CGI scripts have either no extension or .cgi and
> therefore do not "promote" their mother-language in the way you

   There are lots of pages with .php extension. I didn't mean only perl.
Certainly there are far too many P* languages :)

> described.  (Obviously, P*** didn't need this sort of promotion to
> succeed, and neither does Python.)

   Then Python, you think, succeed by itself, just by its existence? I
think you are wrong :) We need to develop the language and the core,
libraries and communities. We certainly should promote Python.

Oleg.
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