Re: Indicators and traction…

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 23-Sep-2015 19:22, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 09/23/2015 11:47 AM, Chris wrote:
>>
>> a) billions of dollars:
>>     big corporations (cf. Go) and the Java/C++/C# industry that makes
>> millions selling training courses and books etc.
>> b) the general inertia and herd behavior of people, and to make the herd
>> move you need a)
>>
>
> FWIW, Python hit pretty big success with a different approach: Appeal to
> people's innate desire for instant gratification. By the time they
> discover the downsides, they're already knee-deep. (Obviously I'm not
> suggesting this was intentional, just seems to be the way it played out.)

Working with Python codebase ATM I can't agree more :)
Of course, that is just my biased opinion.

> I'm not making any suggestions or drawing conclusions from that, I just
> think it's relevant and worth being aware of.
>


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Dmitry Olshansky