Pycon disappointment

[lbonafide at yahoo.com]

On Mar 16, 2:43 pm, Robert Hicks <sigz... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 12:38 pm, lbonaf... at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > On Mar 16, 6:10 am, Bruce Eckel <lists.ec... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I think a lot of people have been caught up in the idea that we need
> > > to commercialize Python, and ride some kind of wave of publicity the
> > > way that Java and C# and Rails seem to have done.
>
> > This coming from someone who caught the Java wave and rode it for a
> > decade.
>
> Doesn't that make him better to see the problems with it?

Sure, but he dumped C++ (a truly non-commercial language) like a bad
habit for the latest silver bullet ten years ago.  Complaints against
Java's commercial nature now ring a bit hollow.