Java vs Python

[faatdilac at my-deja.com]

In article <jwbnews-8D484F.07260425052000 at news.olympus.net>,
  "John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> wrote:
> In article <8F3F72DB7davemrquizorg at 212.27.32.76>,
nospam.mrquiz at free.fr
> (Dave Simons) wrote:
>
> > I wasn't taking too much notice at the time, so can anyone tell
> > me how much marketing went into C to make it the biggest-selling
> > language the world has ever known?
>
> Not much "marketing" as we know it.  However, giving Unix and C to
> universities infiltrated C into the thinking of a generation of CS
grads
> (and not-quite-grads).  I was out of that environment long before
then,
> so I wasn't infected...C looked pretty useless for a long time (and I
> still don't much like it).
>
>   --John (who about 5 years ago had to stop saying he had been around
> computers twice as long as C had)
>
> --
> John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com
>

Oh yeah, and which language do you think the trio Larry, John and Guido
use to develop Perl, Tcl and Python.
BTW, Matz also uses C to develop Ruby.

Amateur does not know to appreciate the very tool that creates the
universe of programming languages, it's C.

faatdilac


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