Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Is Python a commercial proposition ? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <-1016624622349492799@unknownmsgid> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1343657378 16471 64.122.56.22 (30 Jul 2012 14:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:09:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Received-Bytes: 1987 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26254 On 2012-07-30, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Still, you may still get away with the above statement by providing a > sufficiently narrow definition of "standalone". By my definition, there > isn't much "standalone" code out there. Most code I know interfaces with a > couple of external tools, libraries or backends, usually written in > languages I don't have to care about because they provide a language > independent interface. It's not really relevent to this discussion, but there is _lots_ of stand-alone code out there. It runs in sub-one-dollar microcontrollers that are programmed in assembly language or in C without external libraries (sometimes not even the "libc" that's included in the C language definition). Those microcontrollers are everywhere in toys, appliances, and all sorts of other "non-computer" things. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at borrow 26.7% of the RAYON gmail.com TEXTILE production of the INDONESIAN archipelago?