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Thank you (was Re: Should I learn Python or Java?)

D-Man dsh8290 at rit.edu
Mon Jan 8 14:29:57 EST 2001 
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:43:11PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
| "D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
| news:mailman.978966549.13022.python-list at python.org...
|     [snip]
| > The company I am working for now uses Java for the SDK and runtime
| > library.  Part of the purpose of the product is to generate a Java
| > class that our customers can use to do screen scraping from Java
| > apps/applets.  Due to the nature of this product and its target
| > audience it is rather tied to Java.
| 
| So, can Jython help you?  Not a rhetorical question, I'd really like to
| know -- I don't have a good grasp of exactly how far you can go
| using Jython vs Java, or what the performance ratios are...
| 

Hmm, Jython compiles my friendly Python code to Java bytecode right?
It's possible.  I should talk to my boss about a way to try it out.
Probably off the clock though.  (It's a nice small company, only 9
developers, 3 of which are co-ops :-))

| 
| Alex
| 

-D
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