Could Python supplant Java?

[Dan Johnson]

<lvirden at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ak025t$p8q$2 at srv38.cas.org...
> According to Tim Tyler  <tim at tt1.org>:
> :In comp.lang.java.advocacy d2002xx <d2002xx at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> :
> ::> I cannot imagine why anyone would use C unless it's necessary :-)
> :
> :: Hmmm... Because gcc is much faster than g++...
> :
> :Compilation time?
> :
> :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.

I suspect he meant an *employed* developer. :D

>  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 ...

Serious question:

What is so developer-hostile about Windows?

Are you sure it isn't really Microsoft you find.. hostile? :D