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<DIV>[Assuming this isn't a troll]</DIV>
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<DIV>"Dry Ice" <<A href="mailto:nomail@nomail.com">nomail@nomail.com</A>>
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<DIV>> First, I'd most like to hear from those<BR>> who have some balanced
experience at BOTH,<BR>> as opposed to 'fans' of one or the other who<BR>>
have only dabbled in a secondary effort.<BR>> <BR>> I would like to select
one development environment<BR>> to manage everything in a cluster-server
project,<BR>> from accounting-database to server CGI to distributed<BR>>
computing jobs.<BR>> <BR>> Platform: Linux, and a few Windows machines-
at<BR>> least at the beginning.<BR>> <BR>> If you had to
choose...</DIV>
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<DIV>I did choose, and I chose Python. Java has the worst of compiled and
interpreted languages - you have to go through the compile step, but it's still
slow. Java liked to hype up "Write Once, Run Anywhere", but with Python it
actually works. Development in Python is faster, maintenance costs are lower,
and fancier stuff like interfacing with a C/C++ library makes JNI look
embarrassingly convoluted. Swing is too slow to be useful, and Java GUIs in
general are pretty clumsy and look like toys. Python, however, doesn't
blush when you ask it to work with other languages/libraries, so Python GUI apps
use wxPython, PyGTK, etc and look and act slick, fast, and professional.</DIV>
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<DIV>I used Java for several years and then learned Python, after which I wrote
only ONE Java program. Writing it convinced me that I could never go back to
Java again. With very little tradeoff, programming in Python lets you focus on
all the fun stuff while ignoring the tiring and tedious work.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Dave</DIV>
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