Re: Parrot for Python

From: Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone (dialton3#NOSPAM#.despammed_at_virgilio.it)
Date: 04/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 11:44:58 GMT

sridharinfinity@yahoo.com (Sridhar R) writes:

> Why is Java so popular than Python. Are the technologies for Java
> available for Python (no ... no jython)? We can implement them in
> python if we want. But the difference is speed.

There is no reason... Sun is behind java, who is behind Python? Java
has a very little library advantage IMHO. Python is growing everyday,
as Tim Bray says in his blog here:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/08/FutureLanguage 

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Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
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