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Re: on the python paradox

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc, comp.lang.python
Subject Re: on the python paradox
Date 2023-02-12 08:57 +1100
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On 06-Dec-22 12:37 pm, Sabrina Almodóvar wrote:
>                            The Python Paradox
>                               Paul Graham
>                               August 2004
> 
> In a recent talk [1] I said something that upset a lot of people: that
> you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you
> could to work on a Java project.
> 
> I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that
> Python programmers are smart. It's a lot of work to learn a new
> programming language. And people don't learn Python because it will
> get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program
> and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.
> 
>
Then we're doomed, because Python is appallingly slow. Not even Moore's 
law can save us.

And God help us if someone devises another popular language that is 
interpreted by a program written in Python. I expect people are working 
on something at this very moment.

Sylvia.

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on the python paradox Sabrina Almodóvar <salmodovar@ligumu.com> - 2022-12-05 22:37 -0300
  Re: on the python paradox Y A <air000000000000@ya.ee> - 2023-02-11 08:08 -0800
  Re: on the python paradox Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2023-02-12 08:57 +1100
    Re: on the python paradox not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-02-12 08:35 +1000
    Re: on the python paradox Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2023-02-12 09:46 +1100
    Re: on the python paradox Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-02-13 13:48 +0300
      Re: on the python paradox Ron.Lauzon@f137.n4.z21.fsxnet (Ron Lauzon) - 2023-02-15 05:27 +1300
    Re: on the python paradox Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-02-13 13:53 +0300

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