Static typing is over-rated. 1+1 doesn't always have to equal 2, sometimes 11 is a great answer, so is January 1 st, 1969 at 2 milliseconds past Midnight.
And sometimes I want to Add A and B as the sum of their Unicode characters. -Brandon PS My typing is often confused for static, because when you type like the wind the way I do it becomes a fuzz of white noise. -----Original Message----- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:23 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Quick poll. Java or Python? You just enjoy watching gladiator combat, eh? Perhaps this should be phrased as "JVM vs Python runtime", because there are other languages you can run on the JVM besides Java (including Python, oddly enough). I write most of my "serious" apps in Java because I think statically typed languages are superior for large, complicated codebases. However I am not terribly fond of the Java language, and look forward deploying Ceylon apps on GAE. I use GAE/Python for simple fun apps that have limited scope and can be banged out quickly. Or of course if the organization inheriting the codebase prefers Python. But I find that once a codebase reaches a certain size, significant refactoring becomes a serious problem without the kind of IDE support you can only have with static typing. Jeff On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, GAEfan <ken...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you were starting a new app today, would you use java or python? > Why? > > Will python ever be as efficient in multi threading as java? > > Will Larry Ellison keep java free? > > Python is a beautiful language, but may be too expensive to run in > GAE. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
