> And most educators decided on Python because? Because there was a huge push by the Python designers towards this direction? They got funds from the DARPA in

> And most educators decided on Python because? Because there was a huge push by the Python designers towards this direction? They got funds from the DARPA in 1999 for a proposal entitled "Computer Programming for Everybody", the first part of which was " Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students". The Python project did a lot of outreach and marketing specifically targeted at educators to explain why Python was a great teaching language (and did a lot of work to make it so - don't get me wrong). It worked.