[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > Now Lisp (or Haskell, etc) I could easily see. But why should Python > tend to correlate with "high skill", when, as you point out, it's in > fact _simpler_?! My current working hypothesis: Python has never been > marketed and hyped the way Java and C# &c have; somebody who CHOOSES > Python shows some ability to think for themselves, rather than following > the herd, and such ability correlated with programming skill.
Python also has a type of beauty to it (despite warts here and there), so someone who chooses it probably has better attunement to well-designed software than someone who chooses an uglier but equally obscure language. That attunement would correlate with skill. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
