Could Python supplant Java?

[lvirden at yahoo.com]

According to Tim Tyler  <tim at tt1.org>:
:In comp.lang.java.advocacy d2002xx <d2002xx at myrealbox.com> wrote:
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::> I cannot imagine why anyone would use C unless it's necessary :-)
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:: Hmmm... Because gcc is much faster than g++...
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:Compilation time?
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:If you're a developer - and this is a problem - you buy a faster computer.

If you're a developer, in all likelihood you can't afford to buy a
faster computer.  And many employers have decided that the next computer
they are going to buy is a Windows machine, which is certainly developer-hostile
enough to cause many a developer to consider a career change into veterinary
medicine, environmental recyling engineer (aka garbage pickup and disposal),
or perhaps kindergarten herder ...
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Tcl'2002 Sept 16, 2002, Vancouver, BC http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/
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