Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[James Mills]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Russ P. <Russ.Paielli at gmail.com> wrote:
> You know what? The more I think about the kind of nonsense you and
> others are spouting here, the more annoyed I get. I will gladly agree
> that encapsulation may be more trouble than it's worth for small
> applications, maybe even some medium sized ones, but you and others
> here are making blanket proclamations that are just plain nonsense.
>
> I suggest you call Boeing and tell them that encapsulation is more
> trouble than it's worth for their 787 flight software. But please
> don't do it if you ever wish to work for them, because you will be
> proving conclusively that you don't have a clue about the kind of
> software systems they produce.
>
> I've wasted more than enough time with this nonsense.

I am 100% confident that those same systems could be
well written in a language such as Python and would very
likely end up being much smaller and more manageable.

I have a question for you:

All your arguments seem to lean towards size and the
importance of encapsulation. What is the largest system
you have worked on - that has been written entirely in Python ?

cheers
James