Java vs Python

[faatdilac at my-deja.com]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10005271143590.4282-100000 at sundial>,
  Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000 faatdilac at my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > Oh yeah, and which language do you think the trio Larry, John and
Guido
> > use to develop Perl, Tcl and Python.
> > BTW, Matz also uses C to develop Ruby.
> >
> > Amateur does not know to appreciate the very tool that creates the
> > universe of programming languages, it's C.
>
> The only reason those people used C was that "it was there, and it was
> portable". This made for a very wise decision socially (which is part
of
> the reason Python/Perl/Tcl are popular), but C was certainly not the
> optimal language for that. Consider, for example, that a Java
programmer
> does not have to learn Java/Python API -- she merely writes Java
classes,
> and JPython can use those. Consider that the real pain with writing
> extensions for all three is to manage memory, something that would be
> spared if Scheme/Lisp/Java were selected as an implementation
platform.
>
> C is a good language for what it does, but claiming that the fact
Python
> is written in C makes C "holier" is not very accurate. Not to mention
that
> this would suggest that JPython proves that Java is the perfect
platform.
>
> --
> Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
> http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
>
>

It's a thankless & shameless attitude to say that C is not generally
useful while C has been feeding generations of software professionals.

The name Dennis M. Ritchie shines as long as Perl, Tcl/Tk, Python exist.
Show me a commercially successful language compiler developed in any of
the scripting languages. Show me an OS developed in any of the
scripting languages.

The software world would be much poorer without C.

faatdilac


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