30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
12:57 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Watch out for the parochialism! I like Python as much as the next guy (probably more :-) but I'm sensitive to choosing the best solution.
you better make that "good enough", or we'll be stuck with SF for an- other hundred years.
The language choice should only be used as an argument if all else is equal.
since it's a lot easier to get Pythoneers to volunteer time to work on (develop, hack, keep running, create add-ons for) a solution written in Python, the criteria ought to be "the language choice is only irrelevant if there's no Python solution that's good enough". it's also a marketing thing; if the developers don't want to eat Python dogfood, why should anyone else do that ? </F>