REPOST: Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Alex Martelli]

"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
news:DAB7DC5D2F730DD9.72339FF5F625AF55.12461E9D1E9E52F3 at lp.airnews.net...
> In article <a0i1ae$3mu$1 at serv1.iunet.it>, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it>
wrote:
> >"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:889C110F5BBBFAFD.A03B35C232EA2760.70B0892CB9479323 at lp.airnews.net...
> .
> .
> .
> >Maybe, but Python could be usable as an extension language
> >even if the application was implemented otherwise, in the
> >right environments (JVM: Jython always usable where Java
> >is; Microsoft COM/Automation).
> .
> .
> .
> Yikes!  Let me make this perfectly clear:  YES,
> Python deserves consideration as an extension
> language even in applications largely implemented
> in other languages such as C and Java.  I apolo-
> gize for making that obscure, for it definitely
> was one of the points I intended to make.
>
> As usual, Alex and I agree.

Hmmm, yes, but my point was slightly "skewed" -- I was playing
devil's advocate here.  Even if the customer agrees that, yes,
Python is what they surely want to use for extending and tweaking
the application, this doesn't force you to code the application
in Python -- you may still (although you shouldn't:-) code it
in other languages (partly depending on platform issues).


Alex

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