When will Python go mainstream like Java?

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On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:

> Actually I am still waiting for Java to be mainstream :-)
> You could say it is popular, which it is without doubt but in my opinion after C handed over it's pseudo de facto standard (mostly because a lot of OS'es are written in it) nobody else has had enough momenta to reach for that crown.
> 
> Actually I quite like the soup of languages these days, what amuses me though, that Python seems to emerge as the de facto glue language to bind them all :-)

I'm sure there's a Tolkien 1-liner in there somewhere ;-).

S