PyOpinion: Does Python Programming Marginalize You?

[Paul Prescod]

Ken Seehof wrote:
> 
> Java definitely has a niche: embeded software for household appliances.

I really don't see it having particular virtues there. Forth is more
efficient and more runtime flexible. Python is easier to code. Scheme is
smaller to implement. C has better real-time characteristics. Any of
them can speak TCP/IP.

Java is the language next door: nothing particularly wonderful, nothing
particularly terrible. Just there. On the other hand, if I am forced to
program in a non-Python language and have to choose between Perl, C, VB
and Java, Java is the least of all evils.

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