Python Marketing
Articles
The fastest growing language in the enterprise
This InfoWorld article (Sep 2004) states:
- "a growing number of significant projects written in scripting languages can likely be credited with their increased acceptance. The p-to-p file-sharing client BitTorrent, for example, was written in Python, as were projects from a variety of high-profile companies, including Google, Industrial Light & Magic, and NASA."
- "the big winner this time around is the object-oriented scripting language Python, which saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last year's results."
High Profile Users
NYSE / SIAC
This email reveals:
- "Here at SIAC and NYSE Python is recognized by management to give results that other languages just can't achieve."
United Space Alliance (Space Shuttle Engineers)
From this builder.com article (Jun 02):
- "Python allows us to tackle the complexity of programs... without getting bogged down in the language."
Python on Nokia Phones
- "Nokia's Python package allows Python developers to create applications for the Nokia device with the Python language."
Read entire article here.
"Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language."
-- Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google
IronPort
"Python is a critical ingredient in this high performance system. IronPort's suite of products contains over a million lines of Python."
-- Mark Peek, Sr. Director of Engineering at IronPort Systems.
See above and more quotes from NASA, Industrial Light & Magic and others here. Find more enterprise users of Python here.
Pundits
Bruce Eckel on Python productivity
Bruce Eckel is author of best selling books Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java. In this article he says about Python:
- "one of the best possible choices for building a system"
- "as people begin to understand what they're really trying to do... and how well Python supports that, more people will continue to move to Python."
Also from this this two part interview (one, two):
- "The Python designers said, "No, programmer productivity is the most important thing...""
Another interesting article regarding latent typing in Python.
Eric Raymond
Burton Group
In the abstract for this Report on P-Languages:
- "five times more productive than general-purpose languages such as C++, Java, and C#"