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I'm afraid all this seems like pedantic nit-picking to me - attacking the letter of what I said rather than what I was trying to say. However I did want to com

I'm afraid all this seems like pedantic nit-picking to me - attacking the letter of what I said rather than what I was trying to say. However I did want to comment on my favourite line in this: " if you properly learn C++, Haskell and Lisp " Yes. If you properly learn them I would fully agree. I have in my time made my living as both a C++ programmer and a Lisp programmer and was pretty good at both - but not even close to having properly learned either. Learning them properly would be a life times experience and I suspect you would be a pretty decent programmer at the end of it.

bad_user 16y ago
That's because you've got innacurate claims, especially regarding to binaries / Flash. To some extent, people can have this right now. Here's what you can do with Silverlight + the Gestalt script (yay, Python): http://ironpython.net/browser/gettingstarted.html http://ironpython.net/browser/gettingstarted.html And lets be clear: we are talking about IronPython working and manipulating the browser's DOM here, not the in-a-box model of Flash. Unfortunately, problems with Silverlight: proprietary, not cross-platform enough, not popular enough, Gestalt is loading slowly because it has to download stuff, the IronPython interpreter not fast enough. Some of these are solvable, but if it isn't a standard implemented by everybody, then it's useless.