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The Python paradox is interesting in 2018. At time he wrote this, Java was the go-to language to teach in university and Python was reserved for hobbyists. It s
by sparkie 9y ago
The Python paradox is interesting in 2018. At time he wrote this, Java was the go-to language to teach in university and Python was reserved for hobbyists. It seems that has almost completely flipped now, and everywhere wants to teach Python first. Evidently, there's an awful lot of no-so-smart python programmers available on top of the smart ones now. It looks just like Java looked in 2004.
- Pieman103021 9y agoI definitely disagree that java is looking like - or even starting to - python did in 2004, it still has a huge market share, even compared to python. Yes python is definitely more popular now, enough so that the python paradox doesn't even apply, but it will probably never apply to java, or at least not in the current computing paradigm.
- sparkie 9y agoYes sorry, I worded that badly and didn't intend to mean that Java was in any way like Python was in 2004. Only that Python is no longer something you'd consider someone smart for using.
- Can_Not 9y agoThe Python-Paradox-Paradox.
- mooreds 9y agoMaybe I read GP wrong, but what I took it to mean was that the market/talent position of python in 2018 is similar to java in 2004, not that java in 2018 is similar in any way to "2004 python". Elm, Haskell, Clojure, etc, seem like they fulfill the role of "2004 python" in 2018.
- cies 9y ago> Elm, Haskell, Clojure, etc, seem like they fulfill the role of "2004 python" in 2018. And ReasonML, PureScript and Kotlin the role of 1995 Python?