Python vs. VB

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jason Trenouth <jason at harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Who is Scott Raney?
> > 
> > oh, just yet another nice guy answering "how to I do
> > this in language X" questions with "buy my language Y 
> > instead".  scott's a regular over in comp.lang.tcl land...
...
> I'll cease and desist now if I'm pinning your jerkometer.

no problem here.  this just reminds me of when some-
one thrashed Python over at comp.lang.dylan, and I did
the big mistake of pointing out that Python, in its own
way, addresses many of the same issues as Dylan:

http://www.dylanworld.com/advocacy/Competitive.html

the result was a huge pile of extremely aggressive mail
in my mailbox, calling me a lot of interesting things. the
general idea seemed to be that I was too stupid to even
touch Dylan with a stick, so I decided to do as they said,
and stay here in Python land (if I had thicker skin, I would
probably use Dylan or Common Lisp or Perl instead...)

on the other hand, if you haven't received any such
mails, at least Python's got a more well-behaved news-
group ;-)

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