"Ron Provost" <ron.longo@cox.net> wrote in message news:009101c83c55$4ee07a00$6501a8c0@aristotle... But here's my problem, most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and learn that they are written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you write that in a scripting language?" Whenever I hear a comment like that I can feel myself boiling inside. =================== I don't blame you. Python is an full-fledged algorithm/programming language that was designed to *also* be used a scripting language.

although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se, one aspect of them is that they are often used to "glue" a wide variety of other components together. perl's initial and continued success is in no small part to all the wrappers and interfaces it has to all sorts of other software components and applications. part of python's utility, IMHO, is the ease with which it can be used, like perl, to glue together a lot of disparate parts. > >> But here's my problem, > >> most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and learn that they are > >> written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you write that in a > >> scripting language?" Whenever I hear a comment like that I can feel > >> myself boiling inside.