[geeks] Go Apple....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:43:37PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On July 28, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > extremely high-level language
> > 
> > not really -- at least not in terms of L.O.C. to implement a given
> > algorithm....  It's far too close to C for that....
> 
>   Name a WIDELY USED language that's "higher level".

Exactly how widely does it need to be?  Smalltalk is considered by
everyone to be higher level.  People argue about Lisp, scheme, and
Objective C being higher level.  In my opinion Python is higher level,
and that is extremely widely used (but mainly as a binding language,
not as much for businesses writing stand alone applications it
seems).  Interestingly, if you want the ease of distribution that Java
delivers (to the extent it does deliver it), there is JPython, python
implemented in Java.

Besides, what's widely used really doesn't matter for server side
code, unless you are in a position of having to justify yourself to
hostile PHBs, and we all know that you aren't in that position.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd