Could Python supplant Java?

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In article <Xns926F8B90671A0AusYourStandingInIt at 130.133.1.4>, netvegetable
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>Not offering any personal opinion on this conjecture, but a lot of people 
>are saying that java has failed to become a widely accepted cross platform 
>language for applications.
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No, a lot of people are NOT saying that!


>These leaves the world defenseless against the Microsoft Borg.
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>But could Python do the trick? The python interpreter is smaller than the 
>JRE, and it's certainly a nicely structured language, with nearly all the 
>coding features of Java. 
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>netvegetable at excite.com