[Chicago] Google App engine is python powered

[Massimo Di Pierro]

thanks.

On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Cosmin Stejerean wrote:

> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/ 
> typesandpropertyclasses.html
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
> <mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>> Can anybody point me to a list of supported Model Properties (i.e.
>>  field types)?
>>
>>  Massimo
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Kumar McMillan wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Garrett Smith <garrett at mojave-
>>> corp.com> wrote:
>>>>  Google mentions that they might support other languages in the
>>>> future. I doubt it. The sandboxing that they require and that's
>>>> trivial in Python is not so in PHP, Ruby, and  Java. Neither PHP
>>>> nor Ruby is in Google's core competency and, while Java is one of
>>>> the three internally supported Google languages (the others being
>>>> C and Python), I can't see it running in the distributed
>>>> environment Google's providing.
>>>
>>> Google App Engine seems like it's designed for use by developers,
>>> *any* developer.  The more the better!  If Google Apps want to  
>>> achieve
>>> this goal then they will release a PHP, Ruby, and Java version *very
>>> soon*.  And they will because their main competitor, EC2, already
>>> supports it all.  Besides, Google has always been very agile  
>>> about how
>>> they release products.  Remember when Google Code came out?  It  
>>> barely
>>> had any features at all and there was a lot of booing and hissing
>>> about "missing feature X."  Do you remember when Codeplex came  
>>> out? (
>>> http://www.codeplex.com/ ).  Of course you don't ;)  It looks to me
>>> like Microsoft waited until Codeplex had *all* of those desired
>>> features before releasing it.  If Google had waited until App Engine
>>> supported all the languages they wanted to target then it  
>>> wouldn't get
>>> released until next year :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  So, it turns out that Python really *is* it.
>>>
>>> but, yes, this is extremely helpful to the Python community because
>>> you know there are some people out there who are going plug their  
>>> nose
>>> and say "whitespace, it's just you and me.  We Can do this.  I'm not
>>> afraid!  I'm learning Python just so I can play with Google App
>>> Engine"
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