Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

2011-05-25 Thread theg...@nospam.net
On 5/24/2011 1:39 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: [snip] One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is "I refuse to use a programming language where the proponents of it stick snippets under each other's nose and say 'I bet you can't guess what this does.'" I dunno. That sounds

Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

2011-05-26 Thread theg...@nospam.net
On 5/25/2011 7:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 17:30:48 -0400, theg...@nospam.net wrote: On 5/24/2011 1:39 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: [snip] One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is "I refuse to use a programming language where th

Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

2011-05-26 Thread theg...@nospam.net
So when quora.com fails we can all say it is Python's fault? Maybe they should have focused more on content instead of the bits under the hood? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list