It depends. If it proves possible and _easy_ to extend the language with
dynamically-loadable glue to all kinds of other system facilities (looking
good so far!) and if mere mortals can design clean O-O interfaces, making
those facilities elegant, efficient, and robust to use from Python, why then
I think Python will outstrip every other language out there, and Python
(extended where necessary in C) will be the next revolutionary programming
tool.
Perl seems (in my experience) to be weak for implementing large systems, and
having them run efficiently and be clear and easy to maintain. I hope Python
will do better. It certainly seems to offer more hope of really strongly
reuseable code --- the existing python-lib makes that clear.
-Bennett
bet@sbi.com