Python should try to displace Java

[Tim Rowe]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:00:13 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it>
wrote:

>Doug Tolton wrote:

[snip]

>> I don't know how stating the obvious 'that some languages are better
>> at some tasks than other languages' would be considered a troll.
>
>With such genericity, it could hardly offend anybody (and it would
>be just as unlikely for the super-generic assertion to prove USEFUL
>to anybody, of course:-).  

Though I have upset a few people hereabouts in the past by suggesting
that the statement could apply to Python :-)