Hi Jorge, Have a look at this page: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/
A few choice points to maybe make him think: 1.) Python is one of the top 3 languages at Google. (Where is PHP?...) 2.) Python can be used for GUI apps and has bindings for several GUI widget sets. (PHP?) 3.) Python can be used for Command line apps (With some work, PHP can be too, but it's not exactly natural.) 4.) Python can be used for shell type scripts (OK, so can PHP, but again it's not really its forte) 5.) Python can be used for text processing and is good at it (e.g. lxml, Beautiful soup, good regex support, etc. etc... PHP?) 6.) Python can be used for games (as demonstrated by Eve online for example. 50,000 simultaneous players. PHP? I think not...) 7.) Python can be used for heavy duty number crunching (e.g. Numpy and friends. PHP?...) 8.) Python can be used for image manipulation (e.g. PIL and friends. PHP?...) 9.) Python easily runs or is available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, MacOS, as well as other more esoteric platforms, e.g. Android phones. (PHP?) etc. etc... I think that's enough for now... you get the picture. (Obviously I'm a bit biased ;) ) Walter
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