Does Python compete with Java?

[Chris Herborth]

Harald Massa wrote:

> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote in news:roy-094613.21022405042004
> @reader1.panix.com:
> 
>>http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/foot.htm
> 
>>They don't have one for Python, but I expect it would be something like 
>>this:
> 
> I think the most common solution is:
> 
>>How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot
> 
> Python
> you discover that Guido used his time machine to shoot you in the foot 
> years ago

My experience:

Post to comp.lang.python:

"I'm looking for a good scripting language, and Python's got some great 
features, but that syntactically-relevant whitespace thing just seems wrong..."

Replies:

"Don't worry about it, in practice you'll see that you write code that way 
anyway and it's very natural..."

Me:

"I don't know..."

[Wanders off for a few months.  Returns.]

"Python rules!  Best scripting language EVAR!"

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Chris Herborth                                     chrish at cryptocard.com
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