Why should i use python if i can use java

[Alex Martelli]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:19:50AM +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:
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> Ditto to all the Dynamic, but still strong, typing and the Design
> Patterns discussion explaning why Java is _still_ a very low level
> language even though it is bytecode-compiled and interpreted.

Well, not VERY low...!-).  Just lower than Python...


> | > Actually it does!  With Jython, you can access any Java API from
Python.
> | > Neat, huh?
> |
> | Absolutely!  But does any commercial IDE, as you earlier
> | referenced, support Jython yet?  I don't know of any.
>
> Not commercial, but (g)vim supports this!  <smirking grin>  Version

GVIM rules (5.8's what I'm using now), but I doubt even 6.0 provides
me with a Jython debugger &c...?-)

> 6.0 is nearly finished and has some really cool new features including
> "folding" (the ability to collapse a block of text into a single line
> on the display).

Cool indeed (I'm sure the EMACSers are laughing at us of course:-).


Alex