[Chicago] Better than Python?

[Feihong Hsu]

Hear, hear. Let's not waste time complaining about inferior
languages, let's just keep using the awesome but unlauded languages
out there, so that they don't die an untimely death.

--- Massimo Di Pierro <mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:

> I am not sure the curly braced code is the issue here. Programming 
> 
> languages are tools that we use as screw drivers or cars. Learning
> to  
> use a tool takes time and we do not have the time to learn and  
> evaluate all possible tools in order to always find the best one
> for  
> each job. We have to rely on the market to tell us which tools is  
> more popular and we perceive that tool A is more popular than tool
> B,  
> we assume that tool A is better than tool B, and by learning A we  
> will have a more marketable skill.
> Sun spends a lot of money to convince people that Java is the  
> programming language for the web, Microsoft spends more than  
> everybody else pushing their operating system, and Oracle spends  
> money convincing you they have the best database engine. I have
> seen  
> a lot of excellent products, way superior to the competition, die  
> just because they did not have a good enough marketing machine. I
> am  
> not sure what to do about this. Not sure there is anything that can
>  
> be done.
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Michael Tobis wrote:
> 
> >>> Exactly, but I know their are people out their who are very  
> >>> attached to
> >>> their curly braced code blocks.
> >
> > This is a matter about which reasonable people can disagree
> >
> > ... with unreasonable people.
> >
> > mt
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