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Anyhow, since it seems that Guido was not forced to leave Zope, we might assume that this is
just for the best to the van Rossum family as whole, and Python,
too. Guido says that he will probably have even more time for time for
Python once "the dust settles". Maybe they'll even release some
security-related modules or frameworks for Python, don't know.
Guido, and everybody else, would of course love to have him working on
Python full-time, but I don't think it's feasible. It would have to be
some kind of a fund, and it would be too hard to get one for a vague
project like Python. Although the PyPy people
are trying to get EU fundind; best of luck to them.
But for all I know, Guido still and forever-more cares deeply about
Python and wants it to gain more popularity. In his EuroPython keynote
he stressed that Python still needs more PR, and I agree. There are no
big corporations marketing Python and probably there won't be, and
Python is not as popular as Perl, for example, and probably won't
be. Sure, I would want all that, but I don't think it will happen.
Which brings me to my point: I think that there is a (vague) line in
the spectrum of technical decisions which divides platforms,
languages, etc., to those that are almost automatically accepted as
tools if they are otherwise feasible to problem in hand and to those
that need some sort of advocacy and persuation from the technical
people who actually implement the stuff. Python is still below that
line, but it doesn't have to be that way. Mind you, I don't want a
world domination for Python, because there will always be a lot of
people who just don't like Python, whether or not they have used it
for real, and that's just fine. Not everyone has to like and
use Python, but it's just that I want Python to be part of the
standard selection of tools that are considered when projects are
launched.
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