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Re:Ask HN: Python gaining popularity by all on Saturday October 02, 2010 @05:42AM (#1750146)
Perhaps share these pages with your professor:

http://python.org/about/success/

http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/whatispython_3....

I'd say your prof is pretty myopic.

Of the success stories, I particularly like this email about Python on NYSE from 2003:

http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/%3COF78FB9C74....

Re:Ask HN: Python gaining popularity by code_duck on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:46AM (#1786711)
Seriously, I think the 'air traffic control' company should be enough to convince anyone.