On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Derek Kalweit wrote:
> The same can happen to open source. Those writing code in python
> aren't necessarily able to write and maintain the language itself.
> Python itself evaluates to machine code at some point-- likely the
> core parts of Python are written in C(I'm sure Ed will chime in to
> confirm/deny).
There are various Python implementations out there, but the standard
version is called 'CPython', because it is written in C. The others
are Jython, which is a Java implementation, IronPython, which I
believe is either C# or VC++ or both, and PyPy, which is Python
implemented in Python itself.
> You're still assuming the Python language developers
> won't lose interest(or die off, or be bought off, etc.) during the
> lifetime of your app-- and if so, hope that others pick up the torch
> and continue... Python is far bigger than most, but there are a
> **LOT** of dead open source projects out there, simply because people
> decide they have to eat.
I think you forget that many companies see these projects as
critical to their success, and will fund development. IBM puts a lot
of money into supporting PostgreSQL, for example. Google uses Python
extensively, and has hired several of the top people in Python,
including its creator, Guido von Rossum. None of these folks are
going hungry, and Python is continuing to grow and be developed even
faster than before.
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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