ActiveState going the wrong way

[costas at meezon.com]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:38:07 -0000, grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve
Lamb) wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:03:49 GMT, Costas Menico <costas at meezon.com> wrote:
>>Also the idea of a multiprogramming environment is just a dream. No
>>one is going to program in Python and Perl at the same time. Most
>>people choose a language and stay with it. 
>
>    In what dream world do you live in?  At work I program in Perl, at home I
>program in Python.  My boss wants me to learn C.  1.5 cubicles away they are
>demonstrating a new product written in Java and I used to be a part of that
>group before I extracted myself from its grasp.  That means that in my very
>limited experience I've come into contact with four languages and I don't have
>the option to choose the on eI want (Python) and stick with it.

No dream here. There is an old adage that applies to IDE's just as
good as to  people.

"Familiar of many, master of none"