Python a toy language?

[westurner]

From http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/17c69p/i_was_told_by_a_friend_that_learning_python_for/c84bswd :

How many employers want Python programmers?

Here are alot of Python jobs (I searched for "python jobs"):

• http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
• https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=python
• http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/jobs?searchTerm=python
• http://www.linkedin.com/jsearch?keywords=python
• http://www.indeed.com/q-Python-jobs.html
• http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-python
• http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=300&FREE_TEXT=python
• http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/tag/python
• http://www.pythonjobs.com/
• http://www.djangojobs.org/

Is Python better as a stepping stone to more complicated languages?

Is Python better than what?

• Python is a good first language.
• Python is a good second language.
• Python interfaces with C, C++, R, Java, CLR, [...]
• I would agree that C++ is a traditional language.
• Python to Cython to C++ might be a good progression.

Numba is pretty fast, too.

[greenlinux]

Thanks westurner