Subject: Re: CCL:[QSAR-devel] Chemical Semantic Web and Thanks (fwd from pm286)at(cam.ac.uk)

From: Rajarshi Guha <rxg218)at(psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:27:35 -0500

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:28 -0500, Joe Leonard wrote:

> To me, for things to be really open, they should be done in a scripting 
> language.
> Compiled languages aren't accessible by 50-75% of our community - having
> the source is meaningless as they'll never look at it.  We've all got 
> supercomputers
> for $500, so lets make better use of developer time than CPU time.

Jython would allow you to reuse existsing Java frameworks in Python

This does not apply if you want to have method development in pure
Python - but it does allow for code sharing/reuse

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