How much is set in stone?

[Paul Rubin]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:
> But of course you'd be happy to trust them to IIS-based, NT-based web
> applications, right?

No of course not.

> My own opinion, for what it's worth (and I am known to bend ears on this
> topic):
> 
>     <rant>Python's delivered software quality is higher
>     than many commercial language implementations, and
>     the level of support available is an order of magnitude
>     better: with Python you end up communicating with
>     peoiple who actually understand the software</rant>.
> 
> I suspect, without any reasonable data to support it, that most such
> assertions (but not necessarily yours) boil down to "I'd like to have
> someone to sue if things come badly unstuck". Have you READ the typical
> commercial language system license agreement?

I feel that perl and gcc are both more solid than python right now,
and their support is at least as good.  Gcc is is used in some
military projects where they simply weren't willing to trust anything
they didn't have source for.