Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "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.
I thought it was clear that Alex was talking about "smalltalk gurus who work for Google." -Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
