[Zope] Re: [Jython-users] Jython and Zope

[Kevin Butler]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> 
> Chris Withers wrote:
> > Urm, I think you may be misunderstanding Jython. Jython is an implementation of
> > the Python language in Java rather than C, as used by normal python.
> 
> No, I'm not misunderstanding Jython -- I just think about
> it differently. 
...
> Frankly, I see applets as the main value in Jython. 

Sounds like you're misunderstanding Jython. :-)

I think I wrote an applet in Jython once.  :-)  The download time 
was problematic for me, and I'm not all that big on applets anyway...

> The
> ability to run it in JVM applications seems to have
> little use to me. Why not just use Python?  The only
> reason I can imagine is if I had a whole lot of
> stuff already in Java that I wanted to use

Yes - I use Jython extensively to explore, test, prototype, & implement 
Java systems & utilities. I'm still trying to come up with a way that
will make it as easy to extend CPython as it is to extend Jython...

> I don't know Java. 
> I know C and Python,

I think this is where your atypical perspective comes from - coming
from Python, you look at Jython and see that it doesn't
really add much capability, except "Cool!  I can run in a browser!". 

There seems to be a larger community of people doing Java things who
look at Jython and say, "Cool!  [JP]ython makes it really easy
to do all these Java things!"

Both viewpoints are definitely valid, it is just that there is a
larger Java community than a Python community, so the second 
opinion is more common.

The-blind-man-who-thought-Jython-was-like-a-snake-was-right-ly y'rs

kb

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