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From: Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 01:54:28 +0000 (UTC)
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Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> I think they know better than you and me.

Now it's my turn to say "oh, come on". Those who make these decisions have
likely never written a line of code in their life.

Sturla