Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Tim Delaney > <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I also wouldn't describe Java as a >> "perfectly good language" - it is at best a compromise language that just >> happened to be heavily promoted and accepted at the right time. >> >> Python is *much* closer to my idea of a perfectly good language. > > "Java" was originally four related, but separate, concepts: a source > language, a bytecode, a sandboxing system, and one other that I can't > now remember. > > <snip>
The included standard library. I read Jamie Zawinski making this distinction in his rant at https://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html -- regards, kushal -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
