On 14-Oct-06, at 11:42 AM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
By the way kenneth, why was python made a choice over any other technology? due to its open nature, or is it really fast and efficient than technologies like java when it comes to such heavy duty applications?
an open source application where the target is non it persons needs to be in a scripting language so the audience has some chance of playing around with the code. I first did it in perl - the perl version, with one user, has been in production for about 4 years now. I found python more convenient for multi programmer environment. Java is too bloated - and not enduser friendly.
Incidently java programmers are defecting in droves to python and ruby ...
I develop in python for its high productivity, but never did a project of this size in it so just want to make sure from you and any experienced people. I have seen one project called gnosis at Dr. Nagarjuna's lab on which even I am going to work. it was also in python, but may be as of now it has not grown to the extent of calling it a heavy duty application. may be I am wrong but that's the way I
his application is in zope - as you may have seen, my demo app at http://avsap.org.in is in zope/plone, but again, too much bloat.