[Tutor] Why NOT to Use Python?

[Alan Trautman]

Dan Shafer wrote:

> I'm working on a Python article for CNET. They want me to provide pros 
> and cons for choosing Python in creating a Web-based enterprise-type 
> application where enterprise is defined as meaning lots of simultaneous 
> users.
> 
> Pros I got. Cons I don't got.

Hate to add another pro but I chose Python because I never learned AWK or
other older UNIX and the lack of symbols in Python vs. Perl was a big factor
in choosing Python. Anybody with an object programming background can read
Python code without effort vs. Perl with its _ and $ signs. 
> 
> Any thoughts either way?

The two biggest weaknesses to me are the difficult to use documentation and
the difficulty of finding fairly polished apps/scripts that can be examined
for structure and technique. Books generally aren't complex enough to show a
fully functional package. C++, JAVA and Perl have a lot of really good
examples that are well formed and documented.

Alan 
> 
> Comparing to Java and C# and .NET strategies is probably the order of 
> the day, although I'm open to ideas that don't fit that box.
> 
> 
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