Guido van Rossum wrote: > Watch out for the parochialism! I like Python as much as the next guy > (probably more :-) but I'm sensitive to choosing the best solution.
you better make that "good enough", or we'll be stuck with SF for an- other hundred years. > The language choice should only be used as an argument if all else is > equal. since it's a lot easier to get Pythoneers to volunteer time to work on (develop, hack, keep running, create add-ons for) a solution written in Python, the criteria ought to be "the language choice is only irrelevant if there's no Python solution that's good enough". it's also a marketing thing; if the developers don't want to eat Python dogfood, why should anyone else do that ? </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
