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Perhaps share these pages with your professor:

http://python.org/about/success/

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....

code_duck on Oct 13, 2010 [–]

Seriously, I think the 'air traffic control' company should be enough to convince anyone.

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