A conjecture about the future

The future is a bright place, where an incredible amount of data lives in the Cloud and software runs on any imaginable device with an intuitive customizable interface. (I know young people who can't stop talking about how awesome their phone is and how one day we will all be programming on tablets by dragging and dropping). It seems there is a certain angst in the Python community about not being relevant in the future. Of course, the more you have invested in Python, the more it matters.

To figure out what to do, we need to know what makes Python special. A school of thought claims that Python is a glue language gluing C, Fortran, R, Java, and other languages; therefore, we just need better glue. This probably also ...

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