Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'alain': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'suggest': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'c/c++.': 0.16; 'it),': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'java': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'wrong': 0.37; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'liked': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'subject:This': 0.74 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:41:45 +0100 References: <87ppinhzjt.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <1922104018423700973.131937sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-20-79.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <1922104018423700973.131937sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140605-3, 05/06/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1402011715 news.xs4all.nl 2854 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34092 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72793 On 06/06/2014 00:03, Sturla Molden wrote: > Alain Ketterlin 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 > s/almost// :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com