I'm a Python fanatic these days, I find that I'm able to program about
three times faster than I could in Java, and I was able to program
in Java about three times faster than I could in C. - Andy Hertzfeld
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I believe that C -> C++ -> Java -> Python establishes a nice continuum
of systems-oriented, low-level programming to application-oriented,
high-level programming. - Glyph Lefkowitz
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I believe it was definitely worth moving from C to C++, and from C++ to
Java. [...] For something as advanced as Python is over those languages,
and as different, there will be some hesitation. However, it seems that
in all these cases economics wins out. - Bruce Eckel
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Python is the language which, when used in combination with appropriate
(i.e. sparse) amounts of C, makes C++ completely valueless. - Peter Hansen
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Learning C after learning Python can be done via Pyrex. [...]
Learning Java after learning Python can be done via Jython. [...]
Learning Perl after learning Python can ... never mind. ;-)
 - André Roberge, May 2005
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The vector<> or set<> implementations of GCC are far superior to those of
VC++ 6, but that memory allocation for GCC 3.4.5 (MinGW version) is far
worse than that of MSCRT / VC++ 6. (And Python still smokes them both.)
 - Tim N. van der Leeuw, August 2006