[vox] Who thinks Java is cool?

[Norm Matloff]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:13:20AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

> I'm curious to hear yours and Bill's take on Celery:
> http://celeryproject.org/

Looks elegant, but I'm personally biased against message passing.

> I did talk to several people at a recent conference who were doing
> multi-processing in python and seemed happy with it, but they were
> Geographers not Computer Science and in Geography python is the language
> to go with these days for interoperability and libraries.

Glad to hear that Python is their standard.  And I certainly don't want
to imply that I speak for all CS people.

Norm