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Python is "cleaned-up Java" |
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Written by Content Team
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Nov 23, 2005 at 04:36 AM |
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Page 1 of 2 IndicThreads reported some time back about how Python was growing and it even was making its presence felt in the enterprise market.
This interview with David Ascher, a director of the Python Software Foundation, gives you a quick look at where Python stands today.
David talks about Python's growing reach in the mobile market. He also says that Python is not only a fun langauge to work with but it is now very much a mainstream language like Java. He tells us that Python is even referred to as a "cleaned-up Java".
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Comment by Noname on 2005-11-23 07:01:28
What part of Java has been cleaned in Python? |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-24 00:46:08
Even compared to Ruby, or even PHP, Python looks like a mess! |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-24 01:41:13
Very True, The way python,PHP,Ruby are growing, they are the real threat to Java. |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-23 14:14:04
it's sure... python will kill java... |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-25 22:11:45
Buddy, if Python looks like a mess to you, you should look again.
You can do in two lines of Python what requires 6 lines in Java, with no parenthsis, curly braces or semicolons cluttering its syntax.
It is easy, readable, beatiful, succinct, powerful and to the point. |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-28 22:24:12
The actual quote was, "Some people refer to Python as a 'cleaned-up Java,' or a 'readable Perl.'" Obviously this isn't literally the case; Python predates Java by a year or two.
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Comment by Noname on 2005-11-28 22:25:00
Java was criticised for being too slow back in 1996. It was argued at the time that the performance bottle neck was most often not a language issue but one of data access lag. It was true, run-time performance quickly became a non-issue.
I think that pretty soon the dynamic languages will triumph in the marketplace because developing and maintaining software takes too long, right now. That means it is unnecessarily expensive, even in with low tax developing economy coders.
I suspect that professionals are not exactly enjoying trying to deliver new systems with "bondage and discipline programming languages". And when experts are finally allowed to exercise their choice in the matter they will choose open source and dynamic alternatives to the current mainstream options.
--jorjun |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-28 22:25:22
> Even compared to Ruby, or even PHP, Python looks like a mess!
Try learning Python before you spout such senseless statements |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-28 22:25:37
Python is a mess compared to Ruby or PHP, you say? Would you care to elaborate on what exactly makes it so messy? |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-28 22:26:07
I cringe and feel queasy every time I read a PHP app...I can't imagine anyone with a clue (experience coding in multiple languages) arguing that Python is messier than PHP. Python may be easier to read (cleaner) than Java, but I do think Java is still preferrable in some environments, despite the loss of productivity. Heck, even the average Perl app is an order of magnitude cleaner than PHP :-P |
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