Thoughts on Guido's ITC audio interview

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.955.1119900268.10512.python-list at python.org>,
Ivan Van Laningham  <ivanlan at pauahtun.org> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps.  But adding the time to learn those IDEs in addition to the time
>> to learn Java is ridiculous.  I've been forced to use Java a bit to
>> support credit cards for our web application; I've got a friend whose
>> Java-vs-Python argument hinges on the use of Eclipse; I was unable to
>> make use of Eclipse in the time I had available for the project.
>
>Were there _good_ reasons not to do the credit card part of the web app
>in Java instead of Python?  As in, there is no secure module, or you
>didn't have time, or Python doesn't support crucial APIs?  I'm very
>curious.

The problem was that we needed to use a vendor-supplied library.
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