On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:03:16 +0000, Mark Wooding wrote: >> You've also missed out on probably twenty years of CS where Java (using >> the same assignment model as Python!) has been *the* language of choice >> for undergrad CS, not to mention those introductory courses which use >> Python. > > There's no way that Java has been taught anywhere for 20 years. It just > isn't old enough. Wikipedia claims that Java appeared in 1995, which > looks right to me. Python, released in 1991, is therefore older.
I stand corrected. Can we agree that Java has been the language of choice for most of a decade? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list