ROGER SESSIONS DISQUALIFIES JYTHON AS "FREEWARE"

[Samuele Pedroni]

Don O'Donnell <donod at home.com> wrote in message
3B208271.50B6D0D0 at home.com...
> In the current issue of his monthly newsletter "ObjectWatch":
>
> http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm
>
> Roger Sessions, author of "COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier", and
> ever a strong proponent of the Microsoft mantra from COM to DCOM to COM+
> to .NET, in his main article "IS JAVA LANGUAGE NEUTRAL", searches for
> languages, other than Java, which run on the Java platform.  I read it
> avidly, expecting to find kind words about Jython.  Alas, he classifies
> JPython/Jython as "Freeware" and lumps it together with "School/Hobby
> projects" and says:
>
> "Both of these categories include technologies
> that show the feasibility of generating JBC from sources other than Java
> (a
> capability that is not in dispute), but do not include actual supported
> implementations that would be used in a large commercial project."
> (JBC == Java bytecode)

I don't know Jim Hugunin (now at PARC) personally but I don't think it would
likely
qualify himself as an hobbist.
About the current 2 devels <wink>: some more devels would be helpful,
not much for quality but for other obvious reasons <wink>.

regards, Samuele Pedroni.