Python should try to displace Java

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Wed Aug 20 09:33:34 EDT 2003


margerum at yahoo.com (Mike Margerum) writes:

> C++ is dead?  Better not tell that to the embedded/PDA/Phone world. 
> Seems to be working really well there and thats where the growth is. 
> Why do you think Sun is putting so much effort into J2ME?

Good point.

Out of curiosity, much much memory / how fast are these devices?

More interestingly, how long will it take for Moore's law to make C++
more expensive overall than Python?  Not long, I suspect.


John




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