Python and Java

[foopy]

I just read an article that compares the Java programming language to another, lesser-known language called Python. It states:

"...the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language [like Python], they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to

Comments

[sdaemon]

Its a bit of a misleading concept, though. C is even worse about unintuitive procedures than Java, yet C remains the favorite language of a large set of hackers and coders.

#include

int main(void){
printf("Hello, World!\n");
return 0;
}

Fewer lines, but more cryptic function calls, includes, and explicit newlines.

Georgia Tech's intro CS classes are now in Python then Java. When I first came here, they were Psuedocode then Pascal, transitioning to Psuedocode then Java. Then they went to Scheme-then-Java for a while, now Python-then-Java. Everyone still learns Java, but their first exposure is now to Python.

Of the later classes I've taken, four were in C, two were in Java, one was in C++, two in SQL. And I've only got one actual coding class left to take, which will most likely be in C.

[foopy]

Whoa, that's awesome that Python's being used in the intro classes there

Oh Happy Day!

[gothpanda]

You posted!!! YAAAY!!!!