I've been accumulating project-ideas for over a decade now, mostly for web-applications, but for a few other items here and there. When I first got started in web-development we spent several months looking at various technologies before settling on ColdFusion. Along the way, though, we looked at a lot of alternatives: Perl-cgi, classic ASP.NET, and others that I cannot even remember any more. The last one that I do remember was mod-python - that was my first exposure to Python in general, as well as to object-oriented languages. At the time, I was busy enough learning CFML, and how to build web-applications, that I set mod-python aside, and focused on my job.
For several years, as I grew as a developer and learned more about the ways and wonders of building web-applications, I started accumulating project-ideas, but it simply never occurred to me to re-examine Python or mod-python in that context. During that time, I changed home operating systems twice (going from Mac OS to Windows to Linux), which didn't help with trying to keep a consistent application-development language available. I started a family as well, which ate more of my nominal free time.
Finally, things loosened up enough that I thought I might be able to make some headway on the 20-odd projects that I'd managed to keep track of, and I started looking around for a language to work on them in. I remembered Python, and dug back into it again, with the intention of becoming, if not a Python master, at least a competent Python developer. There were technical reasons that I picked Python out, but just as important were some non-technical reasons that have been noted here and here.
The language isn't without its warts, but I believe that discipline, good design and good programming practices will overcome the ones that I'm aware of.
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