why would anyone use python when java is there?

[Richie Hindle]

[Adam]
> For the life of me I can't understand why he would troll
> comp.lang.python when comp.lang.lisp is there.

[Richie]
> +1 QOTW!

[Paul]
> Overruled! ;-)
> 
> Mostly because comp.lang.lisp seems to have become a much better place
> to get quotes of the week about Python than comp.lang.python itself.

Point taken... but had Adam said "For the life of me I can't understand why
he would troll comp.lang.python when the rest of usenet is there" I would
have still voted QOTW.  It was a pro-comp.lang.python vote, not an
anti-comp.lang.lisp vote.  8-)

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Richie Hindle
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