It is a business app for say 20 users.  No hardware drivers, if there were I
would of course use C for them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Ed Leafe
> Sent: 10 December 2007 16:53
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: Re: A Question of Strategy / Crystal Ball required
> 
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> 
> >>   Java sucks because it doesn't have pointers :-)
> >>
> > No, Java and C# are *great* because you can get on with being
> > productive
> > and not have to worry about memory management and pointers. :)
> >
> > It's 2007. Why would I want to be allocating my own memory?
> 
>       Of course, the answer is "it depends". Mostly on what level you are
> programming to.
> 
>       If you are creating hardware drivers and the like, you'd better be
> using a low-level language. If you are writing a business app for 100
> users to access a database server, it would be silly to do that in
> anything other than a high-level language.
> 
>       The reason why Python was chosen was precisely because the courses
> dealt with concepts such as algorithms, looping, conditionals,
> classes, etc. - things that are common to all languages. The faculty
> simply felt that Python required the least amount of language-
> specific instruction, allowing them to focus more on teaching
> programming concepts.
> 
> -- Ed Leafe
> -- http://leafe.com
> -- http://dabodev.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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