Is Python Dead?

[Joe Potter]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 14:45:49 GMT, kzaragoza at mediaone.net (Kris J. Zaragoza) wrote:

>This strikes me as flamebait, but I'll put on my asbestos suit and
>dive in anyway. :-)
>
>On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:42:37 -0700, Edward B. Wilson II <ed at ewilson.com> wrote:
>>I have been following Python for five years now, and I am still just as
>>frustrated with it as I was in 1996.
>>
>>Python still doesn't have good database support, nor has it grown to be
>>useful in the web space as mod_perl.  PyApache has been around longer than
>>mod_php, yet php has far surpassed it as a productivity tool in the web
>>space.
>

<snip>

>>
>>It seems that Python should strive to be great at the ABC's before it
>>attempts poetry.
>
>I think that Python's leadership (specifically Guido) has been doing a
>fantastic job.  The powers that be have avoided trying to pigeon-hole
>Python into one particular application area, instead making it useful
>to a broader audience of software developers.  It is this flexibility
>that makes Python so incredibly useful, in my opinion.
>

For example, one lone programmer (as I understand it) wrote a nice SQL 
server/client entirely in Python. This would be Gadfly.

Talk about your scaling up and down.




>
>I myself use Python for a variety of tasks.  It scales down nicely to
>simple scripting tasks, and scales up to heavy data analysis and
>manipulation using relational databases.  I use Python for "bread and
>butter" work that has nothing to do with generating web pages.  I'm
>even using the Jython implementation in a production order processing
>environment and haven't seen a single hiccup.  Python gives me all the
>power and flexibility I need to get my job done.
>
>-Kris


Regards, Joe