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 More options Mar 16 2008, 8:08 pm
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From: lbonaf...@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:08:43 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Mar 16 2008 8:08 pm
Subject: Re: Pycon disappointment
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On Mar 16, 2:43 pm, Robert Hicks <sigz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 16, 12:38 pm, lbonaf...@yahoo.com wrote:

> > On Mar 16, 6:10 am, Bruce Eckel <lists.ec...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I think a lot of people have been caught up in the idea that we need
> > > to commercialize Python, and ride some kind of wave of publicity the
> > > way that Java and C# and Rails seem to have done.

> > This coming from someone who caught the Java wave and rode it for a
> > decade.

> Doesn't that make him better to see the problems with it?

Sure, but he dumped C++ (a truly non-commercial language) like a bad
habit for the latest silver bullet ten years ago.  Complaints against
Java's commercial nature now ring a bit hollow.

 
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