Re:Ask HN: Python gaining popularity
by barnaby on Saturday October 02, 2010 @03:41AM
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"Real world" is an odd concept in college. Python is used A LOT in the real world, including NASA and many fortune 500 companies.
Just because there is still more COBOL code running in the "real world" than there is C# code doesn't mean C# is 'radical'.
Plus HackerNews readers are likely to be less concerned with what people used 5 years ago when they started the projects that are big today (e.g. Java etc.) they're more interested in what people are using _NOW_ to make the projects that will be big tomorrow (e.g. Python)
Just because there is still more COBOL code running in the "real world" than there is C# code doesn't mean C# is 'radical'.
Plus HackerNews readers are likely to be less concerned with what people used 5 years ago when they started the projects that are big today (e.g. Java etc.) they're more interested in what people are using _NOW_ to make the projects that will be big tomorrow (e.g. Python)