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[Benjamin Krueger]

thibaut colar wrote:
> It's like saying Apple has more cell users than Nokia.
> Apple might be more "trendy" and hip, that doesn't mean it has a larger 
> user base.
> 
> Case in point:
> Remove ruby from your OS, see what happens -> probably not much.
> Remove python -> probably lot's of broken stuff.

Touchy topic! Don't get the Python users angry!

Python is just as "hip" and "trendy" as Ruby, in the bigger picture. As 
a programmer at an institution more conservative than your own if Python 
is a hip & trendy language to them, and I suspect the answer will 
probably be yes.

Remove Ruby and more than half of my customers go offline. Remove Ruby, 
and thousands of servers become unmanageable. That matters to me. It's 
not that Python isn't important. Nobody seems to be claiming that. It's 
that Ruby is also important.