David Crocker wrote:

> I have a somewhat different viewpoint of why C and C++ are so widespread.
> The reason they are widespread is that they were the best alternatives
> available at critical times when the market was ready to switch 
> programming languages.

and

> The battle is between C# and Java.

I am indebted to my son Michael (who has been programming in Python for many
years) for pointing out to me that another issue is not just strong v. weak
typing but also static v. dynamic typing - see for example Bruce Eckel's
blogs

'strong-testing versus strong-typing' :

http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0025

and

'strongly-but-dynamically-typed' languages 

http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066

Regards, Tony

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