Python and Flaming Thunder

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> This shows how much you don't know about customers, and their needs. A
> customer gives a s**t about 5-10 times faster sites. They care if it is
> *fast enough*, but beyond that they don't bother. But what *always*
> bothers them is development time & flexibility. Because that directly
> affects the price they pay.

Just to support this statement: PHP runs an order of magnitude slower than
python. Yet a great deal (if not the majority) of dynamic sites out there
run under PHP. All of these are unhappy customers?

Diez