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Re: Abandoning Python

From John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Abandoning Python
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Date 2011-05-22 16:58 +0100

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Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM, John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Here's my wishlist (not really in any order):
>
> How come pony is not listed there? Language cannot be better than
> python without pony!

Pony, absolutely.  I took that as read.


>>  * An even larger user base, contributing more and better free and
>>   commercial software.
[...]
> As there is rather heavy inertia in software development community,
> expecting some language to acquire "even larger user base" is
> hopeless.

I did say I was prepared to compromise on that one.  After all, when I
started using Python it was a lot smaller that it is now.  If a language
is good enough to tempt me away from Python, probably the same is true
for other people too -- as it was with Python a decade or so ago.


> Also, most of these complaints could be solved by using correct python
> dialect for particular task - RPython, Cython and so on.

Different topic.


John

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Abandoning Python John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-21 16:49 +0100
  Re: Abandoning Python John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-05-21 11:00 -0500
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 12:25 +1100
    Re: Abandoning Python John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 16:58 +0100
      Re: Abandoning Python Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-05-22 19:55 +0200
      Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 18:26 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 12:27 +1100
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 17:11 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 17:33 +0000
    Re: Abandoning Python Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-24 21:45 -0700
      Re: Abandoning Python harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-27 09:34 -0500
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 21:01 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 21:19 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 10:16 +1100
  Re: Abandoning Python Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2011-05-23 11:45 +0100

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