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Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

From "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?
Date 2011-05-24 19:11 +0300
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From: "Kevin Walzer" <kw@codebykevin.com>

> 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.


Exactly, this is why I said that it matters only the distributions used by the most users.

Octavian

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