python and applications

[Greg Ewing]

simonb at webone.com.au wrote:
> 
> Why is Eiffel better anyway?
> It's faster, OK, and it
> has nifty assertions as part of the language,
> but, well i tried them both and
> i vote for python.

Not to mention that a dynamic language like Python
is likely to be much better suited to implementing
something dynamically-programmed like a MUD than
a statically-compiled language like Eiffel.

And no, Python is certainly NOT a toy language!

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