Java vs Python

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--
faatdilac at my-deja.com wrote:
> 

[bobbit]

> It's a thankless & shameless attitude to say that C is not generally
> useful while C has been feeding generations of software professionals.
> 
> The name Dennis M. Ritchie shines as long as Perl, Tcl/Tk, Python exist.
> Show me a commercially successful language compiler developed in any of
> the scripting languages. Show me an OS developed in any of the
> scripting languages.
> 
> The software world would be much poorer without C.
> 

I started programming back in the 60s with 1401 Autocoder.  I moved to
COBOL, and thought, "how wonderful!" because it was *so* much easier.

I discovered unix and C in 1983, and was *overwhelmed* by the a) 
sensibility of unix; and b) the power and expressiveness of C. 

Are there any OSs written in COBOL?  I think not.

<just-another-me-too-post>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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