Java, Meet Python. Python, Meet Java

Posted by dave on Mar 19, 2004 9:28 AM EDT
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Java (specifically J2EE) is good at things like dealing with large number of transactions, dealing with application state, and stuff like that. But a significant majority of applications on the Web don't necessarily generate enough of a transaction load to justify the penalties you have to pay with Java - which carries a lot of baggage with it to make the bytecode compiler happy that "agile" languages like Python and Perl (especially Perl) don't worry about. If they *really* need performance, they'll write it in what Linux developers invariably resort to for such a task: C.

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