On Monday 08 Feb 2010 4:17:23 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: > 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 >
excellent answer - but you should add that choice of language and platform is most often done by suits without domain knowledge and on extraneous considerations -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers