On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giveitawhril wrote... > >> REAL WORLD programmers who want to be generally useful go >> and learn C#. > > No: Real programmers first eat a quiche and then return to their Pascal > programming.
Bah, new-fangled languages like Pascal... Real programmers write Fortran. > > >> But the SOURCE is some old, high level language which no one wants to >> use anymore! > > C is alive and kicking. Every language has its place. > Plus, there exists implementations of Python written in Python itself; > see PyPy: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/home.html > > >> Just noting that, if it is written in C, that throws a curve at me >> in trying to balance the value of learning Python vs. some other >> major language. > > Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also > written in C. Does that mean you should do all your text processing in C? > Don't you? </snark> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
