I love python, and this is a terrible article, as many others have said here. You have to understand that these articles are written for a number of reasons:

I love python, and this is a terrible article, as many others have said here. You have to understand that these articles are written for a number of reasons: * The company (here, paypal/ebay) needs to recruit people. * Often, the language or technology is under siege internally, and these external posts strengthen its position. * The company wants to get some message out there, but it doesn't actually have any interesting technology of its own, so it goes on and on about some known tech.