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Request for Validation of Python as Development Language

Harry George hgg9140 at seanet.com
Wed Nov 14 16:49:43 EST 2001 
"A. Keyton Weissinger" <keyton at weissinger.org> writes:

> Does anyone have a more recent list of commercial products out there that
> use Python? I've heard the usual RedHat, Microsoft (nebulous), and Ultima
> Online. I'd like more.

Do you insist on COTS?  Our use has been entirely with open source.
We do:

RDBMS (MySQL and Postgresql)
COM and CORBA (e.g., to CAD engines and to expert systems)
csv files
XML, XSchema, XSLT
CGI's to access translator services and to access databases
GUI's for forms completion
assorted other "scripting" tasks

We also do a lot of in-house semantic translations among stovepipe
communities.  Typically prepare reader/writer adapters for whatever
data formats they have, then translate to central neutral
representation, then back out to some other format.

> 
> The information in the books and the python.org site is a bit dated.
> 
> I'm pretty new to the language and I'd like to use it for more stuff at
> work. I'm beginning to feel some of the stigma of it being a "scripting
> language." This is a bad rap. I'm in a .NET/Java shop (about 90%/10% for
> those who care) and I'd like to introduce Python into the mix. But I say
> "scripting language" and people head to the hills yelling "PERL!" which is a
> bit disconcerting (especially since I like Perl too, though not as much as
> Python). They need to hear "object oriented application development
> language" or I need to buck up and realize I'm barking up the wrong tree.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Keyton
> 
> 

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Harry George
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