PYTHON IS CRAP

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In article <oqpunai1fc.fsf at titan.progiciels-bpi.ca>,
  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> [Vadim Chugunov]
>
> > "François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
>
>
> Take Java for another example.  I'm sure I could start using it within
> a week.  But what worth would this be?  The amount of libraries
available
> for Java is frighteningly overwhelming.  In no way, someone could
ever say
> within a week, or even within a month, that s/he got a serious
overview of
> what's available.  We should count this whole time as part of the
learning
> process, if we want to be serious about what we mean by "knowing" a
language.
>

I agree fully.  Honestly, part of the reason I've stayed away from Java
is pure performance...
off on a tangent:
     Some people say that it performs well, but just doing a very
simple (non-scientific) loop test, counting to something like 1
million, C took about .25 seconds, python took about 1.15 seconds, and
java took about 11 seconds, that was enough for me ;).

Look at the number of books available for java though.  The majority
are specific to one topic (i.e. EJB or Swing, etc.).  It's often said
that the number of books available controls the usage of a language
(which is somewhat of a chicken/egg thing).  For me that's definitely
true, but in the negative sense.


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