http://efford.org/blog/archives/37 Random musings on Python, software engineering, the web & other stuff Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:45:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://efford.org/blog/archives/37#comment-31732 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:51:08 +0000 http://efford.org/blog/archives/37#comment-31732 [...] Responses to the announcement of the Google App Engine have been mixed, from Tim Bray’s somewhat negative Sharecropping, to an awful lot of “very cool“s, with Niall Kennedy’s tech description providing a reasonably neutral common ground. I’ve been meaning to post about it, but I’ve a couple of pressing deadlines and haven’t had time. I didn’t think “Python - great! But this thing really isn’t forward-looking” would be doing it justice. However this morning I ran across a couple of blog posts on which I felt obliged to comment, and I just realised that most of my main points about the Google App Engine leaked out into those comments. So with apologies in lieu of better treatment, here goes - [...] […] Responses to the announcement of the Google App Engine have been mixed, from Tim Bray’s somewhat negative Sharecropping, to an awful lot of “very cool“s, with Niall Kennedy’s tech description providing a reasonably neutral common ground. I’ve been meaning to post about it, but I’ve a couple of pressing deadlines and haven’t had time. I didn’t think “Python - great! But this thing really isn’t forward-looking” would be doing it justice. However this morning I ran across a couple of blog posts on which I felt obliged to comment, and I just realised that most of my main points about the Google App Engine leaked out into those comments. So with apologies in lieu of better treatment, here goes - […]

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