Alex Martelli wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > > 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, > ... > > > "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. > > The funny idea that Google would hire Guido to "counter" Microsoft's > hiring of Jim Hugunin 1+ year ago didn't particularly need debunking, > but you chose to comment on it with a "question" which I thought was > worth answering, since you chose to phrase it so very generally, and > since it appeared to be intended as a "rhetorical question" hinting at > what I consider a wrong idea in the general case. Far from "there not > being much you can do", if you're interested in avoiding possible > misunderstandings you can easily choose to express yourself more > precisely and specifically, rather than vaguely and generically... > As I said, I cannot do anything in how you want to intepret that and how you can read it as "rhetorical question"(could be just that it is from me), there really is nothing I can do other changing the mail name which I am intended to.
What is your meaning of "wrong idea in the general case" ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
