Is Python Dead? Long Live Python!

[Kemp Randy-W18971]

We run Solaris at my company, and Perl comes bundled with the Sun machines.  It's easier to ask someone to look at Perl because it's an existing part of every Solaris installation.  Since Python is not pre-bundled with Solaris, I need to ask the Unix administration to install it.  I could sell either language if Python were bundled with Solaris like Perl is.  Which raises an interesting question.  Why do companies like Sun include Perl but not Python with their operating systems?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hansen [mailto:peter at engcorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:09 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Is Python Dead? Long Live Python!


Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
[snip]
> But it is hard to get others at my company on 
> that bandwagon.  I have a hard enough time selling Perl.

If you are trying to sell both Perl and Python, maybe you're
just confusing your audience with a mixed message.  Are you
trying to promote them on the same basis?  

If anyone tried to tell me I should be using Perl for a task, 
although I could also consider using Python because that would 
be just as effective, I'd have to laugh...  (and then apologize
and all that stuff, which I really hate. ;-)

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Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
peter at engcorp.com