I'm not 100% sure, but I think Python's heading down the long road to irrelevance, following such other luminaries as PL/1, Pascal, and Lisp. I have no hard numbers to back this one up with--it's just a feeling so might be completely wrong, but... Exegesis 5 was released the other day, and it made Slashdot. Normally whenever something perlish hits slashdot, the slavering masses of rabid python folks come out and start lobbing grenades at perl. (Much to the discomfort of many of the python dev team, I expect) This time?
Nothing.
The Ruby folks were out in force, which was interesting. Ruby's been getting more and more buzz lately in the English-speaking world. The Rubyists, though, are rather more polite about themselves than the Python (or Perl, to some extent) folks. Probably because the community reflects the folks at the top. Ruby's got Matz, who's one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to exchange e-mail with.
Posted by Dan at August 24, 2002 03:29 AM