It was my first computer science class in Drexel University, that I realized what Python really is. It’s the future. Google is using it, youtube is using it, even Microsoft had used it one time. It’s a 4GL, has very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing and most of all is more productive than other languages. Here’s what Journyx has to say about Python,
“Journyx technology, from the source code of our software to the code that maintains our Web site and ASP sites, is entirely based on Python. It increases our speed of development and keeps us several steps ahead of competitors while remaining easy to read and use. It’s as high level of a language as you can have without running into functionality problems. I estimate that Python makes our coders 10 times more productive than Java programmers, and 100 times more than C programmers.” — Curt Finch, CEO, Journyx
I have come up with a Python Attitude Timeline from Matt Harrison’s Blog. It is basically a sum up of what Greg Stein’s keynote included in Pycon Day3: March 25th, 2005.
Attitudes toward Python
- 1995 – eShop – What is python?
- 1996 – eShop – Python is great and making us successful
- 1997 – MS (acquired eShop) – Shipped embedded python in their product
- 1998 – MS – We are using python? That was a “prototype”. Let’s re-write it. (The re-write in .asp was slower)
- 2001 – Collabnet – We don’t use python
- 2003 – Collabnet – Write that in python
- 2005 – Google – Of course we use python
