Is Python worth learning?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Mon Sep 4 20:06:47 EDT 2000


In article <DLWs5.133010$QD5.1603303 at news.corecomm.net>, lynx  <a at b.c> wrote:
>
>however, the point i tried to make was that python isn't meant to directly
>compete with java in all those places java was meant to be The Language(tm),
>that python wasn't built to replace java. not to speak for Guido, of course,
>but i'd be rather surprised to learn that it was.

Given that Python predates Java, that would be impossible unless Guido
used his Time Machine.
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