I left Python for c++ because the job called for c++.
But there wasn't anything in Python that I found compelling so I never came back.
As a scripting language, Ruby seems so much more compelling, despite it's friendliness seeming to doom it to eternal slow bugginess. I'd go back to Ruby before Python.
But I'm more likely to add Python support to an app I'm developing, since I know it's more sensible.
Python's functional aspects seem chronically undeveloped so leaving it for a real functional language makes sense. But functional approaches seem limited in the "real world".
As additional anecdotal evidence, this is true for me, though I'm still using Python for my next project simply because it's a proven language with proven libraries.
But I'm certainly ready and interested in moving toward a more functional language -- I've always been interested in the Lisps, and have always tended to write code in the functional style, where possible (even though my first language was Java...)
it's taken me a day to "get" that - i'd been thinking it was a confused comment rather than a (questionable quality!) joke... have a vote back to 1 since i suspect you've been downvoted by others as confused as me.
