The Industry choice

[Christopher Koppler]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:49:44 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Christopher Koppler <klapotec at chello.at> writes:
>> The moral is, of course, that either the Python community's alpha
>> geeks need to get access to controlling interest in a *major*
>> company (or to become successful enough with their own companies to
>> register on the current *major* companies radar as potential
>> competition) or as you say, Python needs to be embraced like Linux
>> was. That's the way to win the hearts of software companies' managers.
> 
> It's not just a matter of attitude or politics.  Python is an
> excellent choice for many projects.  For some other projects, it's
> clearly unsuitable.  For yet other projects, it's a plausible choice
> but there are sound technical reasons to be wary of it.

IMO (and - indubitably limited - experience) in the many cases where it
*would* be an excellent choice, it *is* most often a matter of politics,
to have a project use, say C# or Java instead of Python (or Lisp for that
matter) as the main development language.

-- 
Christopher