Joe Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Doesn't Google also employ such people as the inventor of Limbo > programming language, one of the inventors of Dylan, and a Smalltalk > expert?
...not to mention Lisp gurus (such as Peter Norvig), C++ gurus (such as Matt Austern) and Java ones (such as Josh Bloch) [[and I'm certainly forgetting many!]]. The difference, if any, is that gurus of Java, C++ and Python get to practice and/or keep developing their respectively favorite languages (since those three are the "blessed" general purpose languages for Google - I say "general purpose" to avoid listing javascript for within-browser interactivity, SQL for databases, XML for data interchange, HTML for web output, &c, &c), while the gurus of Lisp, Limbo, Dylan and Smalltalk don't (Rob Pike, for example, is one of the architects of sawzall -- I already pointed to the whitepaper on that special-purpose language, and he co-authored that paper, too). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
