[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[Octavian Rasnita]

From: "Tim Harig" <usernet at ilthio.net>
> On 2011-01-18, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 1/18/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
>>
>>> Whether or not you actually agree with that economic reality is
>>> irrelevant.  Those who fund commerical projects do; and, any 
>>> developement
>>> tool which violates the security of the source is going to find itself
>>> climbing an uphill battle in trying to gain market penetration with
>>> commericial software producers.
>>
>> Of course. When I submit or commit patches, I am doing it mostly for
>> hobby, educational, and scientific users, and maybe website makers (who
>> make site I can visit). If commercial users piggyback on top, ok. I do
>> not know how many developers, if any, are after such market penetration.
>
> You kind of over-extended the intentions of my comment.  It does not apply
> to open source software in general.  I agree that open source authors are
> not interested in the quantitative value of market penetration.  However, 
> I
> am betting that most authors of developement tools would like to be able 
> to
> use their tools on the job.
>
> I am sure that more software developers would love to develop using
> Python as part of their job.  For some this is a reality; but, many more
> are stuck using their employer's choice of language.  One of the factors
> that employers consider, when they choose a language, if they produce
> retail software is that the process of compiling will sufficiently
> obfiscate their code.
> -- 



True. But aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough?
Can they be easily decompiled?

Octavian