Python suitability

[Jim Fulton]

skaller wrote:
> 
(snip)
>         Let me predict, for example, that Zope will become
> almost unworkable soon: Python just cannot hack such a large
> beast. C++ on the other hand, makes getting started
> much harder, but it then scales better.

I predict that your prediction will be borne out.

We have never found Python to provide any significant 
limitation to the salability of Zope wrt application 
complexity.  In fact, features of Python facilitated 
implementing features of Zope, such as transparent 
persistence, transactional programming, and acquisition 
that greatly facilitate the management of complexity 
and salability.

(On the performance side, Python, being a very high-level
language, sometimes poses computational or memory usage
challenges, but these are rarer than one might expect.)

Jim

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