Thank you (was Re: Should I learn Python or Java?)

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.978901087.32745.python-list at python.org>, D-Man
<dsh8290 at rit.edu> writes:

| As for portability, Python is much more portable than Java is.

this is true, for most jvm implementations. on the other hand,
python programs aren't always as portable, since python doesn't
try to hide all the platform differences like java does.

| It is also much older

actually it's about the same age, java is from around 1991, iirc.

  -- erno

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