Should I learn Python or Java?

[Martijn Faassen]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at zadka.site.co.il> wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2001 12:32:12 GMT, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) wrote:

>> But there's a huge difference in the way OO is done in both languages.
>> Smalltalk approach to objects is a lot more similar to Python's than
>> Java's. Anyway, it's of course debatable. :)

> OTOH, Java and Smalltalk both take the "we are the world" approach,
> while Python slithers into whatever niches it finds, playing nicely
> with everyone it finds there. (UNIX? It can fork/pipe/munge text files with
> the best of them. Windows? It can COM and ActiveX until your face
> turned blue. Java? There isn't a class it can't use)
> (I know you know this)

And in fact, I wrote it a few posts higher up in this thread. :)

Regards,

Martijn
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