Python_Sightings_?
Cousin Stanley
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Tue Dec 17 14:21:00 EST 2002
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Kevin ... You're absolutely right that a user SHOULDN'T have to care about what language an application is written in, but I've found through experience that many, myself included, usually DO care and for varied reasons ... Laura Creighton has cited personal experience problems with a particular language and I agree that this is likely to be a primary reason one would choose App_A/lang_X over App_A/lang_Y ... A user's personal experience, either positive or negative, with other applications written in a paticular language will definitely send them either toward or away from MORE of the same, and often, as in other facets of life, FIRST impressions can be difficult to circumvent when making future decisions ... Robin Becker mentioned other considerations such as maintainainablity and portability which could impact language-based application choice ... Cousin rzed provided an explicit example in considering additional download/install requriements that could possibly plague a potential user ... A readily available, functional, diverse, large, and stable user application repository in any language, even if scattered, SHOULD help to drive both new users and new developers toward that language, and that IS a GOOD thing ... If additional application base environment/shell/run-time requirements are minimized, it is even GOOD-ER ... My current interest in such a Python Applicaton Repository was somewhat retrospective since I've just spent the past 6 or 7 months learning to program a bit of Python, and then realized that other than program development tools I hadn't actually used any Python based applications myself to see how they might fly on my particular machine ... As a potential Python developer I'm also interested in seeing some real-world examples of how Python applications are distributed and installed from a user viewpoint ... Poor functionality will kill application usage and popularity right out of the box ... Distribution and installation issues are likely to rank very high in application selection and these issues are usually language predicated ... Cousin Stanley
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