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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> | > 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...
>
> Sometimes (far too often, especially when writing unit tests) Java
> feels very low level.

Nolo contendere re unit tests.

> | GVIM rules (5.8's what I'm using now), but I doubt even 6.0 provides
> | me with a Jython debugger &c...?-)
>
> No, not yet.  The debugger should provide a way (hook) to jump to the
> source in an editor, using an existing editor process if it is already
> running.

But what Jython debugger does this...?


> | > 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:-).
>
> One of my coworkers who uses emacs said "Emacs has had that for 10
> years!" :-).  The funny thing is vim has hardly been around that long.

Yep, but vi was -- warts and all, of course, but still, my
fingers are SO happy not to have to dart for multiple modifier
keys, arrowkeys, mice, etc, when I'm doing serious editing!-)


Alex