I’ve just read the great news. Sun hired Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki to work in Python and Jython. Also check out Charles Nutter’s blog announcement.
This is exciting news for Python.

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Python has received a lot of attention from web developers during the last years, most due to the appearance of new frameworks that often drastically improve developer productivity.
I’ve compiled a list of useful resources for web developers getting started with Python web programming. The list also includes the frameworks I consider the most useful for […]

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I’ve just read Billy Burke’s Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths. Very interesting read. Bill has many good points. I especially agree with him about the importance of great thread support. Java clearly is better here than current Ruby, PHP or Python implementations. (unless you use JRuby or Jython).
But I think Bill misses something.As I wrote […]

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Language wars can be fun. But one should not take them too seriously.
Recently there has been a lot of discussion, especially about Ruby and Java. A couple of years ago, it was mostly Java vs. C++ or Python vs. Perl.
I’ve been working as a programmer for about 8 years and I’ve used many languages, including […]

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