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Re: Computer System Survey

From: "Rutherford, Michael [IBM GSA]" <MRutherf@n...>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:22:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Computer System Survey

>> @:) 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?)

I'm sure he actually ment nobody *important* was using it... :-)

Michael "Wargh" Rutherfurd

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