On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:58AM, Radim Kolar wrote: > I know that Python compatibility can be worked around. I used Python > for few years and wrote about 70k LOC in it until it started to > irritate me that every new version has incompatibilities such as 2.4 > vs 2.3 vs 2.5 and it makes maintaining and testing way harder then > it should be. Its not just compatibility with missing library > functions. sometimes even expression evaluated to different value > under new version. This was similar to php 4 to php 5 migration. > Today i have 3 versions of python installed because of software > requirements. > > For simple scripts it can probably work if you stick to some common subset. > > Scripting via maven plugin has advantage that user do not needs to > install anything, there is couple of languages available: scala, > groovy, jelly, jruby. Maybe jython too.
pretty much all of the j* in JSR223 land is abomination of one sort or another, actually :) Cos
