python, a scripting language?

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sun May 12 15:31:10 EDT 2002


On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:14:17PM +0000, Erlend J. Leiknes wrote:
> Anyway... I would be happy to hear some reasons why python is not a
> scripting language...

   Because there are at least few well-know big system programs in Python.
Two killer apps are Zope (Object-oriented web application framework,
www.zope.org) and Mailman (One of the best mailing list managers,
www.list.org; it was adopted as the official GNU Mailing List Manager!)

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.





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