State of Python

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1053093147.32373.python-list at python.org>,
andrew cooke  <andrew at acooke.org> wrote:
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>python473 at yahoo.com (John Howard) writes:
>> Is it just me or have I noticed a decrease in articles in magazines,
>> etc about Python in recent months?  I regularly receive several
>
>curious.  that's interesting to hear.  personally, i think python is
>becoming more and more popular.
>
>i wonder if this is something particularly about magazines.  maybe
>they cover either "emerging" technologies or the mainstream, but have
>a blind-spot inbetween?  or maybe it reflects something silly like a
>couple of journalists being ill or otherwise occupied (i would guess
>that the set of journalists writing about python is small) (cameron?).
>
>also, i wonder how much parrot will attract people away from python?
>many of the things i notice about python are related to people using
>it to play with new ideas in languages.  parrot might be a more
>attractive platform for those people.
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The magazine world is hilariously prone to send utterly
mixed signals.  Everything AMK, Brett, and Skip have al-
ready written is true.

There are nearly no journalists writing about Python.  
There were one or two ... let's just drop this and go on
to positive assertions.  Mr. Howard was right to ask, 
"Is something going on?  I'm losing the Pythonic signal."
We've told him, "Ach, it's just a local fluctuation.
Give it no mind.  Tell your local bookseller to restock
his shelves."  It's difficult to say more.

Magazines have a LOT of blind spots, and, given that we 
work in such a juvenile field (in the sense that computing
remains unsystematized), the blind spots move around in
time and space.

Parrot--maybe so.  I see several problems with Parrot.

What *I* think is the real interesting story is how many
universities are adopting Python for classroom use.
*There* is an index worth tracking.
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