Historic event (was: Chewing one's arm off to avoid VBScript (was RE: Serious privacy leak in Python for Windows))

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3C46EB8A.3070708 at mxm.dk>, Max m  <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote:
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>But the main problem with VBScript is that most people using it never 
>realise how poor it is, as they us it because it is a "Microsoft 
>Standard" and so is good enough.
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Python is, too, now.

More specifically, Visual Studio .Net just became available
on the MSDN download site this week, and one of its languages
is Python.  That makes possible conversations like this:
  A:  It's done.
  M:  Really?  Great.  How'd you code it?
  A:  In Python.  It went well.
  M:  Python?!?  You know we need to use
      standard languages that our vendors
      support.  That's ...
  A:  But Python is.  Microsoft supports it.
  M:  Oh!  Well, in that case ...
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