In article <pine.lnx.4.64.0903210304530.22...@tau.ceti.pl>, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Aahz wrote: >> In article <49b58b35$0$3548$426a7...@news.free.fr>, >> Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote: >>>Tomasz Rola a écrit : >>>> >>>> I may not be objective (tried Java, hated it after 6 years). >>> >>>Arf - only took me 6 months !-) >> >> That long? It only took me six minutes. > >Guess what, there was a time when Java was looking quite promising. >Especially in the field of distributed computing (which then meant not >only high performance clusters). And computers were of more than one type, >used other cpus than Intel, too. > >Maybe it's easier to ridicule Java now, when it has not met the >expectations. But still, some people (better than I) have spent few >years writing software and doing their research in Java. Sure, that was >before Java had been nominated the common denominator of programming >languages.
So? By the time Java was released, Python had already been around for several years. Taking C++ and turning it into a VM model does not exactly strike me as particularly good use of resources. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-3-1
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