According to the survey done by O’Reilly, Javascript and PHP continues to lead in the book sales, while Python and actionscript are in the last position. There is a considerable rise in the book sales for Ruby as they have now passed sales for Perl books as well (they passed book sales for Python in the last year). Book sales statistics shows the dominance of Javascript and PHP, does that indicate the popularity?
Jeremy Jones has been working with Python since 2001. He uses Python for test data generation, task automation, and general utility. He spends a significant portion of his day in writing and tweaking code to test specific areas of functionality.
In this interview, he tells us about his open source projects and about his favorite features in Python. He also tells us about the hurdles in developing quality software and how to negotiate them.
Mark Lutz, one of the most well known names in Python, tells us why he feels Python is now a major programming language. He speaks about the things he likes about Python and the various areas where Python is being used today. He also elaborates on why Python seems like the right answer to some major issues in software development.
According to him, Python’s basic model is a simple core language, and the core doesn’t need much more. He’d like to see effort put into things like optimization and
just-in-time compilers, instead of esoteric language extensions that
may only appeal to the top 5% of the Python user base.
Seneca College is going to organise “Free Software and Open Source Symposium” on October 24 in Toronto, George Belotsky will be giving a Python talk at the symposium, he has written several articles for O’Reilly Network. His series on C++ memory management made the best of 2003. The talk is titled “Python Power – Learning, Teaching and Doing with the World’s Easiest Programming Language”.
CodeZoo received requests for many languages, but Python got the most number of requests !
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Mark Lutz, author of the O’Reilly’s fameous books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference will guide students.
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