Python vs. C++ Builder - speed of development

holger krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Fri Jan 31 19:04:48 EST 2003


Brandon Van Every wrote:
> Mongryong wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:52, Nick Vargish wrote:
> >> I didn't take any formal programming courses after High School,
> > Imagine what the world would be like had Bill Gates actually graduated
> > with a Computer Science degree....ah, everybody would have a true
> > Unix-like machine with Python already installed on it...
> 
> No, you wouldn't.  People who don't give a crap about degrees get things
> done.  That's why Microsoft is the business juggernaut that it is.  People
> at Microsoft know that technology isn't the dominant component, business is.
> The university guy is Linus Torvaldis.  Linux has the market growth pattern
> of an engineer-centric product.

But market growth is not the end to it all. Of course you would
contradict business-wise :-)

    holger





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