Does Python compete with Java?

[Peter Hansen]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
>> They don't have one for Python, but I expect it would be something 
>> like this:
>>
>> You create a Foot object and call its shoot() method.  The bullet 
>> makes a hole in your foot, but by that time you've gotten dragged into 
>> a huge flamewar about the relative merits of spaces vs. tabs for 
>> indentation and barely notice the pain.
> 
> 
> See Laura's excellent
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna0f23p.511.QnickQm%40h00104b6bfa23.ne.mediaone.net 

Oops!  My apologies to Nick Mathewson, who actually wrote that.
I have a distinct, and clearly wrong, memory of it having been
authored by Laura Creighton. :-(

> and also a whole thread from late 2001
> 
> http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=fPBN7.961%24zX1.1625310%40typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 
> 
> -Peter