Is Python worth learning?

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Tue Sep 5 18:13:54 EDT 2000


In article <8p1den$a13$1 at panix2.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:
>In article <DLWs5.133010$QD5.1603303 at news.corecomm.net>, lynx  <a at b.c> wrote:
>>
>>however, the point i tried to make was that python isn't meant to directly
>>compete with java in all those places java was meant to be The Language(tm),
>>that python wasn't built to replace java. not to speak for Guido, of course,
>>but i'd be rather surprised to learn that it was.
>
>Given that Python predates Java, that would be impossible unless Guido
>used his Time Machine.
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... and, in any case, even when he speaks for himself,
Guido says, "Java and Python: a perfect couple"
<URL:http://gamelan.earthweb.com/journal/techfocus/081798_jpython.html>.
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