Goodbye TCL

[Peter Hansen]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article <f82c8ae7.0404160731.7473b61f at posting.google.com>,
>>  blacksqr at usa.net (Stephen Huntley) wrote:
>>
>>> I would be curious to know what is the biggest-capacity Python network
>>> application in use?  How does it scale in comparison with AOLServer? 
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> How about the one you're using to post your articles -- Google.
> 
> This is no longer true - google did use Python at one point, but
> now it is reserved for internal company stuff only, as google
> really required hard-core C/C++ for the speed and scale at which
> it performs.

Doubtless you have real evidence to back up this claim?

Proof that shows that you aren't just mistaken about where
Python was ever used in that company?  (Hint: it was never
used to run the web servers themselves, of course, but was
and still is used for the "gathering" side of things.)

-Peter