On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:49:44 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Christopher Koppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The moral is, of course, that either the Python community's alpha >> geeks need to get access to controlling interest in a *major* >> company (or to become successful enough with their own companies to >> register on the current *major* companies radar as potential >> competition) or as you say, Python needs to be embraced like Linux >> was. That's the way to win the hearts of software companies' managers. > > It's not just a matter of attitude or politics. Python is an > excellent choice for many projects. For some other projects, it's > clearly unsuitable. For yet other projects, it's a plausible choice > but there are sound technical reasons to be wary of it.
IMO (and - indubitably limited - experience) in the many cases where it *would* be an excellent choice, it *is* most often a matter of politics, to have a project use, say C# or Java instead of Python (or Lisp for that matter) as the main development language. -- Christopher -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
