Java vs Python

[Jim Richardson]

On Thu, 25 May 2000 16:31:06 GMT, 
 faatdilac at my-deja.com, in the persona of <faatdilac at my-deja.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>In article <jwbnews-8D484F.07260425052000 at news.olympus.net>,
>  "John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>> --
>> John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com
>>
>
>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.
>

GvR wrote python so I didn't *have* to use C, for which I am truly 
greatful :)


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Jim Richardson
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