"walterbyrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some think it will. > > Up untill now, Java has never been standard across different versions > of Linux and Unix. Some think that is one reason that some developers > have avoided Java in favor of Python. Now that Java has been GPL'd that > might change. > > IMO: it won't make much difference. But I don't really know. >
Short answer: People use Python instead of Java because people (at least intelligent people) tend to avoid pain. Long answer: Changing licenses doesn't magically change Java's architecture. It is still a closed world of reinvent-the-wheel, my-way-or-the-highway. Which is antithetical to Python's promiscuous interface-with-anything approach. -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
