<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anand wrote: > > This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best! > > > > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing > > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon. > > Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to > > counter this than to hire the big fish himself ? :-) > I wonder how high a particular programming language is in the prioirty > of either organisations of such size ?
Interesting question. I would expect, without any inside knowledge, that Java, for example, is pretty high "in the priority of an organization" (guess which one?) whose size (number of employees) is, I believe, quite a bit larger than Google's. Microsoft used to have a "particular programming language" (Visual Basic) in quite a strategic role in their array of products, and although you'd now have to consider a small set instead (including C#) it seems to me they still do. As for Google, well, I believe there is exactly one (1) person you'll find identified on the web as both a "Google Fellow" AND a Google vice-president, and his page from when he was a professor at UCSB (before he joined Google) is still on the web, too: guess what field his research was in...? But I guess this is about programming languages in general, rather than "a particular one" (and indeed, neither MS, nor Google, nor the other organization above mentioned, have ever been "single-programming-language" cultures [net of the very early times when Basic was MS's only product, of course;-)]...). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list