From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-03-25T21:04:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the word to conventional programmers

On 2005-03-24, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:
> Cameron Laird wrote:
>> *DevSource* profiles "The State of the Scripting Universe" in
>> <URL: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp >.
>
> It was NOT the most interesting or useful interview I've ever read. 

Yeah, mostly they were just whining and advocating, business as usual.

> My favorite bit was Guido's comment: "If the same effort were poured 
> into speeding up Python as Sun devoted to Java, Python would be better 
> than Java in every respect."  Guido has some serious cajones, even if he 
> is right, which he probably is in this case.  The same assertion could 
> be made about Ruby, but in any case the assumption is that the really 
> smart folks don't work on free software.  Do you really buy that?

There was one interesting bit, committed by Pall, the PHP guy:

DevSource: If there were one core thing you could change about scripting
languages, what would it be?

Pall: Even though popular scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl,
PHP, Javascript are all very high-level languages, they are all based on
an text based idiom. [...] Representing code as abstract syntax trees
and not streams of characters is central to huge advances in programmer
efficiency and simplicity.

Csaba