Alex Martelli wrote: > <[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;-)]...). > The question was specifically to the previous question it is responsed to and if its context or meaning have been read otherwise(intended or not intended), there isn't much I can do.
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