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Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:

> Many of these students suggest Python as the
> development language (they learned it and liked it), and the suggestion
> is (almost) always rejected, in favor of Java or C# or C/C++.

And it was almost always the wrong decision...

Sturla