more python evangelising...

[Tom]

But you're falling into the old trap of thinking that one language is best
for everything.

Python is excellent for what it was designed for, but this does not include
large scale app development.

On the other hand, maybe it will be possible to add 'optional' features to
Python 3000 that will make it suitable for that kind of development without
interfering with its simplicity and (development) speed.

Tom.

"Anthony Baxter" <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote in message
news:200006271406.AAA06218 at mbuna.arbhome.com.au...
> in a mainstream-ish news article, no less...
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11606.html
>
> when talking about C#, and it's relationship to Java...
>
>
> [snippity]
>
> And an even more cunning route was at hand, as the redoubtable maintainer
> of the Java site Cafe Au Lait, Rusty Harold Elliot points out. Elliot,
> a long time critic of Sun's licensing tactics, notes: "If Microsoft
> wanted to really challenge Java, they should have gone with Python. I
> just don't believe it's possible for any major advances in language
> design to be made while restricting oneself to the mistakes Kernighan
> and Ritchie made 30 years ago."
>
> Well, quite. The open source language Python has not only proven itself
> macho enough in heavy duty production environment, it's simple enough
> to be taught as a first language to kids. And it's interfaced with COM
> interface for several years now. Maybe someone in Redmond thought it
> was time to unleash some "innovation" at the world, and cometh the hour,
> cometh the new programming language.
>
> [snippity]
>
> --
> Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
>