Removing language comparisons

[Gary Feldman]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:16:16 -0500, "A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote:

>But comparison issues do change over time, e.g. the Python/Scheme comparison
>at http://www.python.org/doc/pythonVSscheme.html says Python uses only
>refcounting GC, and claims the Python and Jython implementations are
>explicitly synchronized.  Java performance numbers cited are for JDK 1.1.7,
>Python performance numbers are for 1.5.2, and so forth.

Of course, those aren't language comparisons.  They're implementation
comparisons.  And sure, some language issues do change, but most of the
fundamentals don't.  Perl will always have funky character prefixes, Java
will always have static typing, etc.

Gary