Language Niches (long)

[Paul Prescod]

I'm not going to respond to the majority of the post because I don't
really see where the conversation is going. I'm just going to say on
this one point:

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> >For system administration? I would say "not much". Systems programming
> >and system administration are two different thing.
> 
> you're reaching here.

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?system+administration
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=systems+programming

>...
> evolutionarily the only good dinosaurs are chickens. SQL, Cobol and the
> like were there at the right time. If Python/Tcl/VB et al are to succeed
> as languages they have to have a real edge. All of these languages are
> Turing complete; therefore they can only really be distinguished using
> other criteria such as ease of use, matching with the problem space etc
> etc. It's pretty stupid to criticize C when it's the main vehicle for
> Python.

Funny, I don't recall criticizing C. We seem to be having two different
conversations here.

I withdraw.
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