Zope & Python

[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]

aleaxit at yahoo.com@SMTP at python.org on 15/09/2000 16:31:54
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"Leon Booyens" <leon_booyens at xsinet.co.za> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I asked one of our specialists if we should not consider using Zope
instead
> of tomcat and Python instead of Java.
>
> His reply was as follows :
>
> Do you agree with all these comments ?

Of course not, or else we would hardly be following this group:-).  But
the first key issue is the usual one: whether compile-time-enforced
static typing is mandatory (or even particularly advisable) to develop
big apps (the current buzzword for which is "enterprise") or not.

language support for contract-based assertions, but in most
other languages they're used at design-time and run-time,
and this holds for Java just as well as for Python, neither
of which has direct language support for them.


Alex


And I even wonder if the guy who wrote the comments on Python has
ever worked in Cobol. There is only compile time enforced
static typing between storage variables, but none on the
external view of prcedures, and many programs are written using
sections and/or paragraphs, which do not enforce anything.
It's still one of the most used languages in banking, insurance,
etc. and we are talking here about applications which total
millions of lines.

Jurgen


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