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@@ -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}}