Paul Graham on Python hackers

[Hamilcar Barca]

In article <n3fRc.191$%y3.3116 at news4.e.nsc.no> (Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:10:32
+0200), Baalbek wrote:

> beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
>> also choosing a community. The programmers you'll be able to hire to
>> work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you could get to
>> work on a project written in Python. [2] And the quality of your
> 
> I prefer Java and Python alike, I simply love those two languages.....

It's my experience that the more "buzz" a language gets, the more
programmers want to use it.  In the case of Java, and especially Visual
Basic, this tends to lower the average quality of programmers using the
language.

> So, am I smart, or not as smart?

I'm betting it's one or the other.

> What a stupid assertion to make; this Paul Graham has just proven 
> himself to be an ass.........

Not.