2008/10/6 Andrea Francia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The right tool depends on the current problem. > > While some python users prefer to talk about when Python is the right tool I > think that it is more instructive to know when it is not. > > Please, could you let me know what do you think about that?
I don't think it would be the best tool for mission critical / safety of life applications, or for hard real-time embedded systems. There are also areas where domain-specific languages have advantages over general purpose languages (although the domain-specific language can be wrapped in a Python library, of course, as is the case with regexp support). Logic languages still seem to have the edge over imperative in some AI and theorem proving applications (although I suppose one /could/ implement Prolog in Python, if Prolog is what you need it's probably best to go straight there). -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
