Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Alex Martelli]

"Patrick" <rpm1deletethis at frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> They DO ask what compilers and linkers we use!  They even
> make suggestions!  We make very customized software.
> Some customers write parts of their own code through
> 'user exits'.

I stand corrected.  In this case, I guess you do have to care
about your customers' software preferences.  If you were working
in a JVM environment, Jython and Java might be considered nearly
equivalent (hard to tell from the outside what language a .jar or
.class was coded in); if you were working in a COM environment,
this would hold in an even stronger way (again, a COM server is a
COM server, "from the outside" it little matters if it's written
in C++, VB, Python or what else); this is also a particular
strength of the .NET Framework; but few other environments give
you such high transparency.


Alex