Well, for what it's worth, it's true at least in my case. I honestly don't have the experience to build file system indexing, low level crypto modules, etc. I

Well, for what it's worth, it's true at least in my case. I honestly don't have the experience to build file system indexing, low level crypto modules, etc. I could never build a database, period. I consider web programming to be the way of the future, so I've never bothered to learn the things I would need to fill those gaps, but at the same time, I do understand that you often have to write filesystem things to be served over the web. Simply put, if you can do it in Python, I'm your guy -- if it needs to be C or (gasp) Assembly, I am absolutely NOT your guy (tho I have dabbled, for the goofs.) While it is an overly broad, sweeping statement that simply doesn't work for a lot of developers, it is at least true in plenty of cases. I might not be representative of the average, but I'm guessing most web devs do consider web development an easier way out. I certainly did.