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Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

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In article <52f9b6af$0$11128$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:40:48 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
> > On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote:
> >> I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to
> >> develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not
> >> a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question.
> >> What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed
> >> using Python?
> 
> [snip a bunch of good examples]
> 
> > Applications in which you do not want the casual reader to be able to
> > derive the meaning of the source code.
> 
> That's a bad example. Do you think that the casual reader will be able to 
> understand the meaning of .pyc files?

No, but anybody with script-kiddie level sophistication can download a 
pyc decompiler and get back a pretty good representation of what the 
source was.

Whether I mind shipping my source, or you mind shipping your source 
isn't really what matters here.  What matters is that there *are* 
people/companies who don't want to expose their source.  Perhaps for 
reasons we don't agree with.  For those people, Python is not a good 
choice.

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What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 15:54 -0800
  Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 00:09 +0000
  Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 11:11 +1100
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-10 16:54 +0000
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2014-02-22 12:15 +0100
  Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-08 21:53 -0500
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-09 03:43 +0000
      Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 20:09 -0800
        Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-02-10 12:10 +0200
      Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 20:21 -0800
        Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 15:59 +1100
  Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 21:08 -0700
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    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 16:41 +1100
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-09 02:47 -0800
      Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-09 15:49 +0000
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-10 22:56 +0000
  Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-02-10 22:40 -0600
    Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-11 05:35 +0000
      Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-02-10 23:50 -0600
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