[hblug] Python

[Michael Adams]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:31:03 +1200
Peter Harrison wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 23:38 +1200, Fraser Burns wrote:
> > How many others of you are also using Python?
> > 
> > I've only been using it a few months so am still at a new level, but
> > already the amount of things that are possible to do is great. At
> > the moment I'm working on using it with MySQL.
> 
> Python I feel is the new Java.
> 
> You don't yet see very many big applications written in it yet, but
> there is no reason why they couldn't. Django is a project which uses
> Python to deliver something similar to Ruby on Rails for Python, and
> has its own template system. 
> 
> Is Python as mature as Java? No - There is a bit of a "not invented
> here" attitude with Python, where some concepts like MVC is not yet
> implemented because the developers are doing it their way. Also the
> lack of separation; ie with Java you have the servlet runner
> (tomcat/resin/jetty etc), the framework (Struts etc), and the template
> language (JSP/Velocity) - and you can choose the ones you like. For
> server/web apps this level of abstraction has not yet been developed
> for Python. There is also Zope; of which I have no experience.

LOL, Yep... goes way over my head too!
I stop reading about here. Hell i couldn't even get a decent window up
and running in XBasic.

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.