Sanskratio

James Gosling forgets that Java is also a scripting language. Java is a scripting language of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), albeit not such a great one. JVM is pretty good, though.

A short writeup about Python's interactive interpreter not quitting when you type 'quit'. And about comparing that to Ruby's interactive interpreter.

I would have written it here, but my hosting provider seems to have permanently decided that mentioning Python or Ruby [1] or similar words in my weblog entries is a security threat. (Nevermind other, real security threats.) I really need to do something about the situation soon.

[1] I have to bypass it with stupid tricks, sigh.

Update: Ian Bicking notes that Python 2.5 answers to "quit" with "use quit() to exit", which is adequate solution given the nasty technical details involved. The not-so-magical-any-more-Python-3000 might fix this for real.

(Yeah. Commenting on this weblog is broken too, sigh.)