Sent from my iPhone On Jul 29, 2012, at 12:07 PM, lipska the kat <lip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Pythoners > > Firstly, thanks to those on the tutor list who answered my questions. > > I'm trying to understand where Python fits into the set of commonly > available, commercially used languages of the moment. Python is a glue language much like Perl was 10 years ago. Until the GIL is fixed I doubt anyone will seriously look at Python as an option for large enterprise standalone application development. I work in financials and the majority of our apps are developed in C++ and Java yet all the tools that startup, deploy and conduct rigorous unit testing are implemented in Python or Shell scripts that wrap Python scripts. Python definitely has its place in the enterprise however not so much for serious stand alone app development. I'm starting to see Python used along side many statistical and analytical tools like R, SPlus, and Mathlab for back testing and prototype work, in a lot of cases I've seen quants and traders implement models in Python to back test and if successful converted to Java or C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
