Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

[Kay Schluehr]

George Sakkis wrote:

> Personally, although I find nothing comes close to the clarity and
> flexibility that python offers, in this case I would go with java, if
> for nothing else, to be on the safe side.

"No manager got ever fired for buying IBM"

> Think about it: if the
> project fails (and that's quite likely for huge projects, not dark
> humour) and you've done it in python, everyone will blame python and
> you who chose it; java OTOH belongs in the realm of "standard
business
> practices", so in a way "it's ok" to screw up, you did what everybody
> else does. Yet another failed java enterprise project, nothing to see
> here.

Hi George, You probably know the tale about Achilles and the turtle?
Where do You think Achilles would be located in the race against the
turtle if Zeno would have convinced him that motion is impossible? I
always thought that we Germans were hopeless pessimists ;)

It's a very funny logical loop inside this kind of arguments: don't use
great Python for grand multimillion $ projects because if You fail
everyone trashes cute Python and claims that it is not reliable for
grand projects and therefore will not be used for those. 

Ciao,
Kay