On 23-Sep-2015 19:22, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 09/23/2015 11:47 AM, Chris wrote:a) billions of dollars: big corporations (cf. Go) and the Java/C++/C# industry that makes millions selling training courses and books etc. b) the general inertia and herd behavior of people, and to make the herd move you need a)FWIW, Python hit pretty big success with a different approach: Appeal to people's innate desire for instant gratification. By the time they discover the downsides, they're already knee-deep. (Obviously I'm not suggesting this was intentional, just seems to be the way it played out.)
Working with Python codebase ATM I can't agree more :) Of course, that is just my biased opinion.
I'm not making any suggestions or drawing conclusions from that, I just think it's relevant and worth being aware of.
-- Dmitry Olshansky
