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On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 00:08:03 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 11/8/25 07:32, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-11-08 13:15, Diego Garcia wrote:
>>> On 8 Nov 2025 12:03:43 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>
>>>> Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> wrote or quoted:
>>>>> And that's why incompetent programmers flock to Python.
>>>>
>>>>    If "incompetent programmers" built most of the modern AI, data
>>>>    science, and automation pipelines using Python - the same
>>>>    language through which most research and real-world models are
>>>>    prototyped, trained, and deployed - what does that make everyone
>>>>    else?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Python is written in the C language.
>>>
>>> What does that tell you?
>> 
>> Nothing.
> 
>    An idea on how to improve 'C'  :-)

No thanks. 'The C Programming Language' is a thin book and still relevant. 
Stroustrup's first edition C++ was thicker and has grown. I have an early 
edition of O'Reilly's 'Java In a Nutshell'. By the 8th edition it needed 
the mother of all coconut shells to fit the 'improvements'.