Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!FUSE.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:19 -0400 From: Kevin Walzer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development? References: <80d59383-36a3-4744-85c4-1a0577f1d3a6@dr5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <88a86$4ddbbc22$4275d90a$404@FUSE.NET> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com Lines: 24 X-Trace: 88a864ddbbc22e7d07caf00404 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6138 On 5/22/11 3:44 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Somebody told that C# and Objective C are good languages. They might be good, but they are proprietary, and not only that they are proprietary, but they need to be ran under platforms that cannot be used freely, so from the freedom point of view, Perl, Ruby, Python and Java are the ways to go. Proprietary? Licensing options for C# in its Mono (Free Platform) implementation: http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing Licensing options for Objective-C in its GNUStep (Free Platform) implementaiton http://www.gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html It may be true that these languages are more widely used on their originating platforms (Windows, OS X) than on Linux, but these implementations are definitely open source. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com