Re:The Incredible Growth of Python
by BeetleB on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:42PM
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As others have pointed out, more people coming out of school know it.
When I started my job, the company (fairly large one) was mostly Perl. Perl was the big language of a past generation, so when those engineers were hired, Perl was king. I was told by at least two people that having Python on my resume is not a boost for engineering companies (not counting software), as most managers had never heard of it.
Not too many years later, a lot of new work in the company is being done in Python. Why? Because that's what the newer employees know and prefer.
I think in the software world, Python was big a long time ago (even in the days I joined). But non-software companies were stuck with Tcl and Perl for much longer. Now that they're shifting, you will see some of that growth.
When I started my job, the company (fairly large one) was mostly Perl. Perl was the big language of a past generation, so when those engineers were hired, Perl was king. I was told by at least two people that having Python on my resume is not a boost for engineering companies (not counting software), as most managers had never heard of it.
Not too many years later, a lot of new work in the company is being done in Python. Why? Because that's what the newer employees know and prefer.
I think in the software world, Python was big a long time ago (even in the days I joined). But non-software companies were stuck with Tcl and Perl for much longer. Now that they're shifting, you will see some of that growth.