On: Advanced Python Mastery

[twyclpc]

Beazley is one of the good ones, but no other language has this level of marketing. Python is the Coca Cola of languages.

[yellowstuff → twyclpc]

Java marketing in the 90s was more intense and much less organic, since it was totally driven by Sun.

[jononomo → yellowstuff]

I completely agree with this -- no programming language has ever had as much marketing behind it as Java. It was absolutely overwhelming for about 6-8 years from maybe 1997 - 2005.

And what a disaster that has been -- a bunch of people now consider object-oriented programming to be a sensible approach.

[musingsole → twyclpc]

Java by Sun back in the day is much more the Coca Cola of languages. Today, maybe C# by Microsoft.

Python's organic growth and adoption is more of an OpenCola model.