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diff --git a/Doc/howto/TODO b/Doc/howto/TODO index 22f0b4b..b858d58 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/TODO +++ b/Doc/howto/TODO @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Short-term tasks: Quick revision pass to make HOWTOs match the current state of Python: -advocacy curses doanddont regex sockets sorting +curses doanddont regex sockets sorting Medium-term tasks: Revisit the regex howto. diff --git a/Doc/howto/advocacy.tex b/Doc/howto/advocacy.tex index 619242b..9074b3f 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/advocacy.tex +++ b/Doc/howto/advocacy.tex @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ definition for "compact": of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact). \end{quotation} -(From \url{http://sagan.earthspace.net/jargon/jargon_18.html\#SEC25}) +(From \url{http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/compact.html}) In this sense of the word, Python is quite compact, because the language has just a few ideas, which are used in lots of places. Take @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ used Python for something similar. Yet, despite being useable for such high-end applications, Python's still simple enough to use for little jobs. -See \url{http://www.python.org/psa/Users.html} for a list of some of the +See \url{http://wiki.python.org/moin/OrganizationsUsingPython} for a list of some of the organizations that use Python. \emph{What are the restrictions on Python's use?} @@ -332,12 +332,18 @@ help. \begin{definitions} -\term{\url{http://www.fsbassociates.com/books/pythonchpt1.htm}} -The first chapter of \emph{Internet Programming with Python} also -examines some of the reasons for using Python. The book is well worth -buying, but the publishers have made the first chapter available on -the Web. +\term{\url{http://www.pythonology.com/success}} + +The Python Success Stories are a collection of stories from successful +users of Python, with the emphasis on business and corporate users. + +%\term{\url{http://www.fsbassociates.com/books/pythonchpt1.htm}} + +%The first chapter of \emph{Internet Programming with Python} also +%examines some of the reasons for using Python. The book is well worth +%buying, but the publishers have made the first chapter available on +%the Web. \term{\url{http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html}} @@ -364,16 +370,16 @@ This quotation from the paper has been echoed by many people: software. \end{quotation} -%\term{\url{http://www.pythonjournal.com/volume1/art-interview/}} +\term{\url{http://pythonjournal.cognizor.com/pyj1/Everitt-Feit_interview98-V1.html}} -%This interview with Andy Feit, discussing Infoseek's use of Python, can be -%used to show that choosing Python didn't introduce any difficulties -%into a company's development process, and provided some substantial benefits. +This interview with Andy Feit, discussing Infoseek's use of Python, can be +used to show that choosing Python didn't introduce any difficulties +into a company's development process, and provided some substantial benefits. -\term{\url{http://www.python.org/psa/Commercial.html}} +%\term{\url{http://www.python.org/psa/Commercial.html}} -Robin Friedrich wrote this document on how to support Python's use in -commercial projects. +%Robin Friedrich wrote this document on how to support Python's use in +%commercial projects. \term{\url{http://www.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/stein.ps}} |