On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy <srinivas_thatipar...@akebonosoft.com> wrote: > 1.The other day my friend was saying ;Since python is opensource ,
The fact that Python is open source is orthogonal to the fact that it compiles source into bytecode which can be decompiled. Also "Python" can't be open source. "Python" is a programming language. A concrete implementation (eg. CPython) can be open source. By your logic, "C" is opensource (in it's gcc incarnation) and therefore should also suffer from the reverse engineering problem you're raising. > so > many companies fear that their product's byte code > could be reverse engineered.To protect their Intellectual Property > rights they stay away from python, > is it true? My previous employer used http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/ to compile their python programs into standalone executables. I don't know how 'secure' this is but it's similar to the kind of security you get through compilation. > 2.What hinders python from becoming a popular OOP language,like a > Java,C#,C++? > is it just slowness of python or dynamic language or Marketing? > I would like to know . This is subjective. I personally think it's mainly marketing (Java had Sun and C# had MS). This leads to secondary effects like certifications (which are useful for non-tech hiring managers to evaluate potential employees), availability of 'resources' (since most engineering grads jump onto the now popular language in the hope of getting a job) The increased adoption also helped the language. More mature tools were built etc. so it comes around. Also, people tend to think of Python as a 'scripting' language and therefore not suitable for 'enterprise' products which by definition should be hard to understand and convoluted - lots of patterns and layers of abstraction and lots of people working on it at any given time. Python's speed is also a matter but I think that's not as big a factor as the marketing. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
