Perhaps share these pages with your professor: http://python.org/about/success/ http://python.org/about/success/ http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/

Perhaps share these pages with your professor: http://python.org/about/success/ http://python.org/about/success/ http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/whatispython_3.htm http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/whatispython_3.... I'd say your prof is pretty myopic. Of the success stories, I particularly like this email about Python on NYSE from 2003: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/%3COF78FB9C74.8B4099A3-ON85256CD1.000EC6A3@nsmtp.siac.com%3E/ http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/%3COF78FB9C74....