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Re: Computer System Survey

From: Alexander Williams <thantos@d...>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:13:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Computer System Survey

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

> @:) A properly coded Python application can run on all of these
> @:) platforms, oddly enough, without porting.
> 
>   Yah, but nobody actually uses it.  Java's the only sensible way to
> go.

Its just too bad Java runs like a pig and has a really lousy FFI to hook
into speed-increasing modules, isn't it?

(Sidreal note: I maintain a 3mil+ document complex web-based database
system written nearly entirely in Python; what was that about nobody
using
it?)

[ObGZG: I still haven't gotten around to writing up the DSII generic
unit
file format ... life keeps getting in the way.]

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