http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html He didn't use Python because Java

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html He didn't use Python because Javascript is the native scripting language for the "next platform," that is, the browser. Also, he doesn't think that Python is superficially close enough to C and Java to be widely adopted.