Java vs Python

[John W. Baxter]

In article <8F3F72DB7davemrquizorg at 212.27.32.76>, nospam.mrquiz at free.fr 
(Dave Simons) wrote:

> I wasn't taking too much notice at the time, so can anyone tell 
> me how much marketing went into C to make it the biggest-selling 
> language the world has ever known?

Not much "marketing" as we know it.  However, giving Unix and C to 
universities infiltrated C into the thinking of a generation of CS grads 
(and not-quite-grads).  I was out of that environment long before then, 
so I wasn't infected...C looked pretty useless for a long time (and I 
still don't much like it).

  --John (who about 5 years ago had to stop saying he had been around 
computers twice as long as C had)

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com