HELP! Must choose language!

[Terry Hancock]

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 08:21 pm,   wrote:
> Yu Wang wrote:
> 
> > Yeah.  I'm totally agreed with that.
> > For commercial usage, python is far from a "perfect" language. You'll
> > have to
> > make a choice among C/C++ , java, or something else. But it will be
> > the
> > last one
> > to choose python.
> 
> If Java were to be acceptable for commercial usage, what would prevent
> Python from it?

I think that Yu Wang must mean that Python has limited acceptance in the 
commercial job marketplace.

Of course, that's a silly thing to say to a 9th grader -- by the time they 
are actually looking for a job, the picture will have changed completely.  
Python may be the "only" language for business programming by then (or 
completely forgotten). Same for C++ or Java or Perl for that matter. 

Actually I'm sure all those languages will still be used by somebody, but 
relative popularity is fickle.  Just compare the current marketplace with 
where it was ten years ago (1993). Remember, that's the year HTTP was first 
deployed.  Linux was a fledgling and hardly anyone had heard of Python (I 
don't actually know when Python was invented). Java was hardly known either. 
Perl was around, but not that widely used (because it was the web that made 
it insanely popular).  I don't think CGI had been invented, and C/C++ 
dominated the commercial programming marketplace.  People who wanted to sound 
superior dissed those of us still using Fortran.  (So, okay, some things 
*haven't* changed, but you get the picture).  Time flies, huh?

Cheers,
Terry

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