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 ,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? > Java is open source and java's byte code can be reverse engineered. That doesn't per se hinder the marketability of Java. Having said that statements made by Noufal in a peer message in this thread stand valid. Python is not decompilable since python is open source - python is decompilable because it compiles to a bytecode. Also many python implementations do ship their source as well. One does of course wonder how much Intellectual Property protection is offered by not shipping source code. Most code bases today are substantially large enough (and in some cases too crappily written) to be extremely hard to decipher. Moreover in most cases it is the first mover advantage that is far more important than securing the source code. If I am shipping a relatively trivial application such as say a Bug Tracking application, the value of Intellectual Property Protection afforded by not shipping the source is quite limited imo. On the other hand, if you have some secret sauce algorithm, then source code protection is important. However such applications are likely to form a fairly small fraction of the total universe of applications and they should not be shipped in Python or Java or C# since all of them compile to bytecode without any optimising passes on that bytecode (its the optimising passes especially at a assembly level instruction set which make reverse engineering so much more difficult). To summarise : Python is unlikely to be at any disadvantage to Java / C# especially in terms of source code decompilability. 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 . > What is a popular OOP language ? Is it the top 3 or top 10. If it is top 3 - python is unlikely to get there anytime soon. If it is top 10 its been there for a long time (perhaps a decade though I could easily be wrong). Of the total universe of applications perhaps slowness might count for 10% (purely my individual hunch - no scientific basis for the number) applications selecting a much faster language. Yet to counter the same PHP is amongst the 3 most popular languages and it is perhaps slower than python. Is it dynamic language ? - Again PHP is a dynamic language and is a case in point. But PHP really scores due to its extremely low barriers to entry (for both developers and hosting environments). Marketing could be a partial answer. Both MS and Sun invested heavily in terms of marketing Java / C#. Once upon a time in very old days it was said that you couldn't lose your job by selecting IBM. Marketing also makes sure that the people making the decision are less likely to feel concerned about having to defend their choices in the future if and should they select say Java or C#. Infrastructure capabilities could be yet another answer. The Java runtime environment is an excellent engine. Now Python has implementations which can run on JRE (Jython) and CLR (Iron Python). However most java choices made in the first half of the decade did not depend upon the JRE. So to put it simply - there is no simple cut and dry answer. If you look beyond the Marketing and a bit of the resultant herd mentality, you will realise that most languages have a good sweetspot they manage to excel at. And thats what drives popularity. So I would really go back and rephrase the question. It should not be why or whether python is popular but really, does the application you want to write lie in the sweetspot area of python or not. If it does there's a good chance using python will make you and your team happy at the end of the day, and if it doesn't by all means use the right language for that application. Dhananjay > > > Regards, > ~ Srini T > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene http://twitter.com/_pythonic _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
