Is Python a commercial proposition ?

[lipska the kat]

On 23/08/12 22:46, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 30/07/2012 03:31, Rodrick Brown wrote:
>> Hence the reason why no one will seriously look at Python for none
>> glue work or simple web apps. When it comes to designing complex
>> applications that need to exploit large multicore systems Python just
>> isn't an option.
>>
>> Its still not possible to be a pure Python developer and find gainful
>> employment today.
>
> Oh come on, are you *actually* serious?
>
> Pretty much everything you've said is nothing but inept bullshit.
> Please stop.

OK, well excuse me for butting in but it's obvious from your website 
that you have some experience with Python in the 'real world' I'd be 
most interested to hear if you have experience of or have heard of 
Python being used in any of the following circumstances.

Critical Systems:

wikipedia does a better job than I on the definition of a critical 
system although I'm not suggesting that everything in this article 
refers to a potential software system but it's a good illustration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-critical_system

Real time systems:

An example of a real time system in this context is
an odds arbitrage back end publishing to the WWW via a
collection of web services, of course this is just one possible 
interface, it could publish to another computer system or another HCI
This requirement of course implies a complete decoupling of view and 
implementation. For more on odds arbitrage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage_betting

It's 'real time' because publishing incorrect odds could cost someone a 
great deal of money, the odds need to be available for manipulation by 
the arbitrage engine as soon as they appear on the relevant bookies 
website (in fact I've had them appearing _before_ this as I managed to 
process them before the bookies web site did :-).

http://www.python.org/about/success/#real-time has a few examples
but I'd be interested to hear 'from the horses mouth'

Again, wikipedia is your friend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

What is the largest Python project you have experience of, you can use 
any metric you want, a simple KLOC, function point or cost analysis will 
be fine.

This is a genuine enquiry and not designed to 'diss' Python in any way.


Many thanks

lipska
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