Paul Rubin wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>That is bogus reasoning. >> >>not if you're a professional software developer and someone's paying you >>to develop an application that is to be run on a platform that they control. > > > An awful lot of Python targeted users are not in that situation, so if > Python's usability suffers for them when it doesn't have to, then > something is wrong with Python.
If a useful subset of Python can be crammed into a Nokia cell phone then I really don't think there's much to complain about (except that "it hasn't been done for *my* machine"). Even embedded systems are much larger now than the minicomputers of yesteryear. Everything's relative. Just wait three years! i-remember-when-we-'ad-ter-code-seven-kilobytes-of-assembly-language-wi'-nowt-bu'-a-teletype-ter-edit-t'-paper-tape-wi'-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.pycon.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
