>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> The difference, if any, is that gurus of Java, C++ and Python get to Alex> practice and/or keep developing their respectively favorite languages Alex> (since those three are the "blessed" general purpose languages for Alex> Google - I say "general purpose" to avoid listing javascript for Alex> within-browser interactivity, SQL for databases, XML for data Alex> interchange, HTML for web output, &c, &c), while the gurus of Lisp, Alex> Limbo, Dylan and Smalltalk don't (Rob Pike, for example, is one of the Alex> architects of sawzall -- I already pointed to the whitepaper on that Alex> special-purpose language, and he co-authored that paper, too). That's crazy. Some of the key developers of Smalltalk continue to work on the Squeak project (Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and I'm leaving someone out, I know it...). So please remove Smalltalk from that list. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! *** Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com *** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
