Java vs Python

[Chris Ryland]

Yikes, calling John Baxter an amateur is like calling the older
Michaelangelo a neophyte!

(Howya doin', John?)
--
Cheers!
/ Chris Ryland, President / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com
<faatdilac at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8gjkga$fjo$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> 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.
>
> faatdilac
>
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