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python a bust?

Brandon J. Van Every try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 14 21:01:11 EST 2003 
John J. Lee wrote:
> pythonguy at Hotpop.com (Anand Pillai) writes:
> [...]
>> There might have been thousands of books published in C/C++
>> language and they have all helped to popularize it in one
>> or the other way. Contrast, in the python world we have one
>> Alex Martelli, one Wesley Chun, one David Mertz, really
>> countable by hand.
> 
> And thank heavens for that.  Most books on C++ (and the same goes for
> all kinds of other technical subjects) actually do nothing other to
> make it harder to find the decent books.  Ironically, the good books
> often seem to get published first, followed afterwards by a glut of
> awful ones jumping on the bandwagon.  So much for competition...

But the questions are:
1) do the "crappy" books sell briskly to someone?
2) is a plethora of books a healthy sign for a language?

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