One thing to rememebr is that at universities in North America students from other sibjects may also be taking CS courses on how to program. At our institute the CS department used to be exclusively Java which is utterly useless for Physics and many other science subjects. Python, C or C++ is much more relelvant and when they switched to that instead of teaching programming ourselves we were able to encourage our students to take CS courses.

While that should not get in the way of the pedagogical needs of a CS program, if language really does not matter for CS then Python is a much better choice that Java because it makes programming courses much more relevant for other subjects and it's probably much better for our students to be taught programming from a CS prof that from a physicist - I've seen how we program!

I think the bigger miracle is that he was able to reach somebody at google. It should probably occur to him that this...

...aint happenin'.

What the hell are you talking about?

@EditorDavid do you want to publish this as its own story ?

Waymo so far has been far safer than human drivers. Your point would stand if there were no cars, and Waymo suddenly decided to introduce them into the society.

Strictly speaking, OS/2 saturated its market, got sold off, and its replacement was Linux. If you want an OS/2 nowadays, you can go here https://www.ecomstation.com/ and find a price. Most of us choose Linux, though. Here's my shot ! https://github.com/tjcw/screen...