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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by bootload on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:01PM (#157471)
"... although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python ..."

Why? The Google "big 3 language" choices are Cpp, Java & python ~ http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf... You may see perl or other languages but the "big 3" are the officially supported ones.

"... python ... but it will be a non-starter for many developers. ..."

I find that an interesting statement. Why say that? Python is a pretty easy language to learn & use.

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by jsjenkins168 on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:27PM (#157501)
Its a great language and easy to learn and use, but it might greatly limit their business relative to AWS.

I polled HN about a month ago to see what percentages of HN readers used what languages for web development, and while Python was the most common, its still only used by 22% of those polled. Take this data with a grain of salt, but still an interesting statistic:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxT7jIffmj3lGdXFcn9hK...

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Re:Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App... by greendestiny on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:49PM (#157514)
It's not even the choice of python that's a limiting factor, its that you don't have a full server, just a language sandbox. Still it might be a great place to start a web application.
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