It is awesome what Python has done, and I agree with what you are saying. I hope that soon, acceptance of Python 3 as the standard python version for Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. will happen, as it has been steadily pulling ahead of the Python 2.7 set of features.
I also am watching in apt fascination at what the PyPy community has done, on so many fronts. I can see that sometime in the future, PyPy could make having multiple Python versions for different backends (CPython, Jython, IronPython) can become a thing of the past. If they can get Jython & IronPython's integration with the JVM/CLR API's like how Jython/IronPython does, and if they can get the closest compatibility with CPython's code (without sacrificing their amazing work on various fronts), as well as good integration with C/C++ extensions, I can see it becoming the standard Python implementation. However, they still are a ways off from all of that.
Python's push into the scientific/secondary education sector has also been nothing short of astounding. An old friend of mine has been using Python during his Doctorate work (after some prodding by me, and realization that it is less expensive/more rich than Matlab and other tools), as well as getting his research lab adopting it as the defacto standard there for their physics research.
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It is awesome what Python has done, and I agree with what you are saying. I hope that soon, acceptance of Python 3 as the standard python version for Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. will happen, as it has been steadily pulling ahead of the Python 2.7 set of features.
I also am watching in apt fascination at what the PyPy community has done, on so many fronts. I can see that sometime in the future, PyPy could make having multiple Python versions for different backends (CPython, Jython, IronPython) can become a thing of the past. If they can get Jython & IronPython's integration with the JVM/CLR API's like how Jython/IronPython does, and if they can get the closest compatibility with CPython's code (without sacrificing their amazing work on various fronts), as well as good integration with C/C++ extensions, I can see it becoming the standard Python implementation. However, they still are a ways off from all of that.
Python's push into the scientific/secondary education sector has also been nothing short of astounding. An old friend of mine has been using Python during his Doctorate work (after some prodding by me, and realization that it is less expensive/more rich than Matlab and other tools), as well as getting his research lab adopting it as the defacto standard there for their physics research.