"Ricardo Aráoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > That would be true if you assume that your business practices are > established and should remain unchanged. But the essence of business > is > change, if developers all know Java/C++ you could gradually retrain > them > to learn Python.
Thats true and if it weren'#t we'd still all be programming in octal codes. But in kost businesses I've seen that kind of change is instigated by starting a completely new project using the chosen language (usually chosen after several small trials and evaluations) rather than by introducing a new language into an existing system which was the original scenario. > Python people for maintenance, and you might keep a core of your > more > experienced Java/C++ programmers available for optimizations in > which > you would need to interface Python with C++ functions. Now that > would > make business sense Absolutely. I totally agree that moving an organization to Python or similar modern language is a sensible move for many applications. Only where very high performance or scaleability are required would Python (or similar) be inappropriate and even in the largest organisations that is a minority case. And of course web services provide a glue that any language can utilise to remove most issues of integration between apps in different languages (which used to be a very valid concern). My only dispute is the wisdom of introducing foreign code into an existing app. Andreas has already said in fact the new languages are already supported so that makes the scenario valid also. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
