Glue code is only one of the things that Python can be and is used for. Python is used for small, medium and large [2] applications as well.
Do all of the following look like glue code?
Recent marketing brochure from the PSF (Python Software Foundation) - (it's a PDF):
http://brochure.getpython.info/media/releases/psf-python-bro...
Python success stories:
https://www.python.org/about/success/
Google's web front-end (many of their URLs even end in .py)), Dropbox clients (wxPython), YouTube [3], Disqus are some apps / sites written in Python.
[1] See the paragraphs about YouTube near the end of this post (by me, but much before this current thread):
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/03/youtube-dl-yourube-downloa...
[2], [3] The PyCon talk below is by one of the original engineers at YouTube.
https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/128/
The Wikipedia article below says YouTube is one of the largest web sites in the world. A lot of YouTube is written in Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Glue code is only one of the things that Python can be and is used for. Python is used for small, medium and large [2] applications as well.
Do all of the following look like glue code?
Recent marketing brochure from the PSF (Python Software Foundation) - (it's a PDF):
http://brochure.getpython.info/media/releases/psf-python-bro...
Python success stories:
https://www.python.org/about/success/
Google's web front-end (many of their URLs even end in .py)), Dropbox clients (wxPython), YouTube [3], Disqus are some apps / sites written in Python.
[1] See the paragraphs about YouTube near the end of this post (by me, but much before this current thread):
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/03/youtube-dl-yourube-downloa...
[2], [3] The PyCon talk below is by one of the original engineers at YouTube.
https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/128/
The Wikipedia article below says YouTube is one of the largest web sites in the world. A lot of YouTube is written in Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube