A Byte of Python

What Programmers Say

You may find it interesting to read what great programmers like ESR have to say about Python.

  • Eric S Raymond (of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" fame and also the person who coined the term "open source") says that Python has become his favorite language. Read more at Linux Journal . This article was the real inspiration for my first brush with Python.

  • Bruce Eckel (of "Thinking in C++" and "Thinking in Java" fame) says that no language has made him more productive than Python. He says that Python is the only language that focuses on making things easier for the programmer. Read the complete interview at Artima.com . This interview/article is Part 1 of a four-part series of interviews called "Python and the Programmer - A Conversation with Bruce Eckel").

  • Peter Norvig, a well-known Lisp author (thanks to Guido van Rossum for pointing that out) and Director of Search Quality at Google says that Python has always been an integral part of Google. You can actually verify this statement by looking at the Google Jobs website which lists Python as a requirement for software engineers.

  • Bruce Perens (co-founder of OpenSource.org along with ESR) has started an initiative called "UserLinux" which aims to create a standardized Linux distribution supported by multiple vendors. Python has beaten contenders like Perl and Ruby, to become the main programming language that will be supported by UserLinux.