Acceptance of OpenOffice.org
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 10:17:00 EST 2006
On 3/16/06, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> That Tour de Babel essay I recently mentioned here:
>
> http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html
>
> ...touches on that question.
I read it when you posted it. The reason given (to paraphrase) is:
"A bunch of people hate the whitespace thing. All the Python people
hate hearing about the whitespace thing. So there is too much hate."
While I think there may be something to that, I don't really think
it's *enough* of a reason to explain the slower uptake for Python.
Didn't Guido originally design Python because he wanted a good
teaching language? If I am remembering that correctly, that might
explain a difference in acceptance between Python and Perl. Perl was,
right from the start, intended to be a tool used by people who had
problems to solve. It was "marketed" that way, if you will. A tool
that is "marketed" for teaching, OTOH, tends to have a much slower
acceptance rate.
This is, of course, pure, uninformed speculation on my part. So it
fits in with the rest of this thread perfectly. ;-)
-- Ben
More information about the gnhlug-discuss
mailing list