Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software in an interview with Dr. Dobbs Journal talks of the changes seen on TIOBE Programming Community Index. The TIOBE index tries to measure the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence.

The First Pune Python meet was held on last Saturday of the month. We are planning to conduct the Python meets on every last Saturday of each month, it will help in spreading the Python language in Pune and across the country.

AJAX is the buzz word of the moment, Is it a fad? Yes it is, if you don’t know what it is. This technology has been around for years and used in some very high profile web applications but Search Giant “Google” made it popular.

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.

David Ascher is the Chief Technologist and Managing Director for ActiveState, he is also a director of the Python Software Foundation.

PythonThreads >> Q. Hi David. Could you please introduce yourself?
David Ascher >> My name is David Ascher. I’m the Chief Technologist and Managing Director for ActiveState, and also serve on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation. I’ve been working on Python since about 1995, and have co-authored two books on Python, Learning Python and the Python Cookbook. I’ve also spent a fair bit of time in the scientific computating world, in particular with Numeric Python and PyOpenGL.

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”.