It's not 'playing catchup' really. It's a strategy: wait until someone else creates a market which is larger than the first couple of tech-people. Once it hits a majority of 'normal' users get in and take over. It's risky, but if you have enough money you don't have to take the risks of R&D and trying out if people like your new stuff.
Sometimes they're a bit late (xbox, etc.) but it's the same idea, they see the market is ready and is of importance so they enter it without having to create the market.
That's what I thought before I really started using Python.
Actually, the whitespace works out great, it makes the structure of a program clearly visible. I think it may have made programming easier. I'd rather use this than { and have to count them with the wrong editor.
Ofcourse you could use whitespace like this in any languague, but if you don't have to...
And every college student knows that the code you copy has to compile. The code on the 2nd SCO picture doesn't, 'return)((ulong_t NULL);' is wrong.
Well, it isn't very interesting for the point they're trying to make but it makes them look urm, messy.
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It's not 'playing catchup' really. It's a strategy: wait until someone else creates a market which is larger than the first couple of tech-people. Once it hits a majority of 'normal' users get in and take over. It's risky, but if you have enough money you don't have to take the risks of R&D and trying out if people like your new stuff. Sometimes they're a bit late (xbox, etc.) but it's the same idea, they see the market is ready and is of importance so they enter it without having to create the market.
That's what I thought before I really started using Python. Actually, the whitespace works out great, it makes the structure of a program clearly visible. I think it may have made programming easier. I'd rather use this than { and have to count them with the wrong editor. Ofcourse you could use whitespace like this in any languague, but if you don't have to...
And every college student knows that the code you copy has to compile. The code on the 2nd SCO picture doesn't, 'return)((ulong_t NULL);' is wrong.
Well, it isn't very interesting for the point they're trying to make but it makes them look urm, messy.