Python indentation deters newbies?

[John Roth]

"CptPicard" <jpmorichon at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I noticed too that, amazingly, a lot of programmers know about Perl but
not
> Python.

Perl has about four times the market penetration of Python. A whole
lot of people regard it as "the language" for system administration.

As far as percieved barriers to adoption, though, I think "there
should be one obvious way to do it" turns a lot of people off
when it's compared to Perl's "there's more than one way to do it."
Again, though, it just takes some familiarization.

John Roth