In article <52f9b6af$0$11128$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:40:48 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote: > >> I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to > >> develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not > >> a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. > >> What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed > >> using Python? > > [snip a bunch of good examples] > > > Applications in which you do not want the casual reader to be able to > > derive the meaning of the source code. > > That's a bad example. Do you think that the casual reader will be able to > understand the meaning of .pyc files? No, but anybody with script-kiddie level sophistication can download a pyc decompiler and get back a pretty good representation of what the source was. Whether I mind shipping my source, or you mind shipping your source isn't really what matters here. What matters is that there *are* people/companies who don't want to expose their source. Perhaps for reasons we don't agree with. For those people, Python is not a good choice. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
