Alex Martelli wrote: > Russ specifically mentioned *mission-critical applications* as being > outside of Python's possibilities; yet search IS mission critical to > Google. Yes, reliability is obtained via a "systems approach",
Alex, I think you are missing the point. Yes, I'm sure that web searches are critical to Google's mission and commercial success. But the point is that a few subtle bugs cannot destroy Google. If your search engines and associated systems have bugs, you fix them (or simply tolerate them) and continue on. And if a user does not get the results he wants, he isn't likely to die over it -- or even care much. Online financial transactions are another matter altogether, of course. User won't die, but they will get very irate if they lose money. But I don't think that's what you are talking about here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
