Good points, but as pointed out elsewhere in this thread: * Mercurial support at Google started before the discussion to move Python (I don't know details, but

Good points, but as pointed out elsewhere in this thread: * Mercurial support at Google started before the discussion to move Python (I don't know details, but someone said it here so it must be true) * Google was using Python long before GvR was hired. [edit: s/hg/Mercurial/, I guess it's the proper thing to say]