Is Python Dead? Long Live Python!

James_Althoff at i2.com James_Althoff at i2.com
Mon Jul 9 17:51:22 EDT 2001


James Logajan wrote:
>James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
>>
>> Edward Wilson wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >Java is WAY too slow for serious development of any kind.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Might we be over-generalizing just a wee bit, perhaps?  My company is
>> generating hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue with products
written
>> in Java (with major pieces implemented in Jython :-).
>>
>> (I suppose *serious development* is relative <wink>).
>
>"A few billion here, a few billion there, and pretty soon you're talking
>real money." A few hundred million? A mere pittance! Obviously no one who
>wants to make real money develops in Java!
>
>(Do I really need to add a wink or smiley??)

Nah.  I'm sure Everett Dirksen is smiling somewhere "out there".

Jim





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