Re: "It works well enough" (was Re: $640.00 to fill the tanks...)

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:26:38 +0000 (UTC), roy@xxxxxxxxx (Roy Smith)
wrote:
Python.

I believe that Python is only an interpreted language... The only
interpreted language that I ever really liked was APL... It had enough
interesting features that having it as an interpreter was
acceptable... Of course, I've known programmers who said that you
weren't a REAL PROGRAMMER unless you programmed in JOVIAL... Of
course, at the time, they had lost their JOVIAL programming job
because the DoD had cancelled that project and were now at NASA
programming in 'C'...
.

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