Not trying to start a flame war here, just curious about the decision to use Java as the main language for Android development instead of Python.
For one Python is one of the main languages used by Google, and both languages are byte-code interpreted. Python has a very rich set of libraries which make it easy to do things quite succinctly. For instance if I wanted to know how old a friend's baby exactly is I could do something like: from datetime import datetime start = datetime(2009, 10, 3, 9, 45, 0, 0) age = datetime.now() - start print 'Birthday/time :', start print 'Baby's exact age:', age Perhaps I don't know Java well enough, but this would be much more verbose/complex to do in Java. Again, not trying to start any arguments, just curious if anyone has any background on this. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
