Comments on: Did Google just change the world again?

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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:53:13 +0000

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By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:17:54 +0000

vibhu,
No, Google might not have been the first with Web Services, or with Spreadsheets, but they are in a unique position to make their services more available to people. Google is in a position to change the Internet, while others like ZOHO or Amazon just create really nice products.

Eric,
Yes, I think this is a huge boost for Python on the web side. There have been web-specific languages (or variations of languages) such as PHP, JSP, ASP, Coldfusion. I think this finally gives Python a platform to be considered as a serious web service language.

What do you think about Google providing support for other languages in the future? What if they came out with support for something like server-side-javascript?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:33:10 +0000

I’ve been wondering for awhile about the Python web framework Google uses internally. We’ve seen GWT for Java already, but nothing on the Python side — which is particularly vexing since there’s still really no “default” framework for Python devs: Guido (now working for Google) recommended Django, python.org uses Nevow, Zope is mature, etc. I’m interested to finally see what the world’s biggest Python-using software company has to say about Python web development.

By: vibhu

vibhu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:58:14 +0000

Do you really think that Google is the first to do this. What about Amazon Web Services?

And IMHO Amazon gives me a lot more flexibility as to choose what service(SimpleDB, cloud etc.) I can use.

P.S. : ZOHO SpreadSheets were present long time before Google’s Spreadsheet.