Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Kevin Walzer]

On 5/22/11 3:44 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Somebody told that C# and Objective C are good languages. They might be good, but they are proprietary, and not only that they are proprietary, but they need to be ran under platforms that cannot be used freely, so from the freedom point of view, Perl, Ruby, Python and Java are the ways to go.

Proprietary?

Licensing options for C# in its Mono (Free Platform) implementation:

http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing

Licensing options for Objective-C in its GNUStep (Free Platform) 
implementaiton

http://www.gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html

It may be true that these languages are more widely used on their 
originating platforms (Windows, OS X) than on Linux, but these 
implementations are definitely open source.

--Kevin

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