[OT] Re: What Excites You?
Erik Price
erikprice at mac.com
Sun Mar 30 21:02:13 EST 2003
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> Philosophical: elmininating the possibility that the vendor of my
> favorite package may go out of business, leaving me stranded; or
> reposition a product, leaving me stranded; or someday require an
> expensive upgrade in order that I may continue to work with my own
> documents.
I was reading a post on /. today that (of course) criticized Java for
being a proprietary solution, because of the very reasons you stated
above. I wonder -- given the tremendous amount of time, work, and code
built on top of/with Java, including such incredible open source
projects as Tomcat, Xerces, Jikes, etc, is this really a legitimate
concern? If you don't care for Java per se, imagine that some other
proprietary solution had gained as much support from both commercial
and OSS interests -- I'm not really asking specifically about Java.
> Honest to goodness neat: Python, beyond question. Python has
> (I believe) changed the professional life of almost everyone who
> has learned how to use it.
I'm with you there. Though I learned Python before I had a
professional life... actually I still don't have a professional life
yet...
Erik
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