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Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox
New submitter mrvan writes "Guido van Rossum, the proclaimed Python Benevolent Dictator For Life, has left Google to work for Dropbox. In their announcement, Dropbox says they relied heavily on Python from the beginning, citing a mix of simplicity, flexibility, and elegance, and are excited to have GvR on the team. While this is, without a doubt, good news for Dropbox, the big question is what this will mean for Python (and for Google)."
I've always loved PHP - it gives flexibity and I just love coding using it. But I know many people love Python too. What's more elegant and nicer in Python than PHP?
I've always like skydrive a lot more than dropbox due to it's more lax restrictions. Nothing to do with the programming language whatsoever.
I too prefer to skydive rather than program in PHP. Personal preference, I suppose...
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
and break every script they have
Is that with or without a parachute? Because falling out of an airplane to a grizzy death doesn't sound so bad after you've been programming PHP all day.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
As is my wife.
In defense of PHP, Python and Ruby suck in their own ways too...
That's like saying "In defense of a knife to the eye, cheesecake and ice cream have their own drawbacks."
I'm glad some one else will say what I've always said, PHP is a three-headed Satan baby. When the seventh seal was broken and the seventh trumpet sounded, PHP leaped out of the womb and ate its mother, the whore of Babylon.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
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I had forgotten all about MFC, until you had to go bring it up again. I'm sure my lack of memory was due to some form of self-defense by my subconscious.
Some things are best left behind, that humanity can move on to enlightenment without having to admit our barbaric past.
DAMN YOU! What is wrong with you man? Do you play Justin Bieber recordings in public too?
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Now while writing an entire sharepoint replacement in one line of perl is impressive, it doesn't really constitute a specific argument against MFC.