Help: Python for a big commercial project?

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:41:19 -0400
Peter Hansen wrote:

> Cliff Wells wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:24:59 +0200 Cereal Muesli wrote:
> > 
> > > - First of all; do you think that Python is suitable for this
> > >   kind of "serious, big" project?
> > 
> > Absolutely.  I would not hesitate to use Python for *any* project.  At a
prior
> > job, I used Python develop the primary application for a contract worth
over $3
> > million a year.  In my current position, I am moving our applications from
C to
> > Python and these applications will be responsible for monitoring and
> > controlling security systems in some high-risk/top-secret facilities
(overseas
> > military installations, government research facilities, etc - if I told you
> > more, well, you know the line ;)
> 
> Complete, total, and 100% redundant agreement with Cliff on all the issues
> he mentions here.  My company is writing applications from scratch in Python
> to be used to monitor and control communication systems in similar facilities

> (would be fun someday to find that our stuff went into some of the same
places) 
> and for industrial use and if I told you more I'd have to ask Cliff to get
one 
> of the people he knows in his line of business to kill you...
> 
> Hey Cliff, did Bruno call you back yet?  I'm still kicking myself for that
> accidental disclosure on the XP mailing list.  It's going to take so long for
> him to track them all down through their email addresses ...  :-(

Actually Bruno has gone missing after a um, miscalculation at the fish market. 
We've been using Crowbar and Glovebox exclusively for our public relations.  So
I suppose those XP guys are safe for the moment.  Besides, anything you might
have told them was probably refactored to the point of disinformation ;)


-- 
Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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