Java and Python

[Ahmed Moustafa]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> 
> 3. The best support for either Java or Python is probably in 
> their respective newsgroups.  Python's is widely known as being
> one of the most polite and helpful.  The language has been
> around a little longer as well, and as it's not largely a 
> commercial venture this might suggest that the "support"
> question is a bit of a red herring.  Do you regularly contact
> the Microsoft for help with VB, or Sun for help with Java?
> (Or did you mean who is "backing" the language, ensuring
> its continued viability.  The answer to that is twofold:
> look at the 11+ year age of Python as historical proof
> it's not a flash in the pan, and note it's _open source_
> so it cannot, by definition, lose viability while people
> support and use it.  You can always get the source.)
> 


For example, where I work, we have JRE for OS/390 (by IBM). Is there a mainframe interpreter for Python? Or, will Jython do?

> 

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Ahmed Moustafa