Is Python "venerable"?
Barry W Brown
brownbar at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 22:53:48 EST 2013
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:45:53 PM UTC-6, Roy Smith wrote:
> A quote from Computer World (http://tinyurl.com/bxqjed8):
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> "... the Python Software Foundation (PSF) - a non-profit supporting the
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> venerable Python programming language ..."
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> Venerable? Come on. Fortran is venerable. Cobol is venerable. Old
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> farts use things that are venerable. I don't want to be an old fart
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> (not that I have much say in the matter).
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> I use Python because I want to be one of the cool kids, doing new hip
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> stuff. Has the language really progressed to the point where it's being
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> called "venerable"? If I want to be one of the cool kids, am I now
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> going to have to switch to Lua or Scala or (please, no) JavaScript?
Homer Simpson put it accurately last night. "I used to be with it when
I was younger. But it moved and now what I am with is no longer it."
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