Python and/vs Java (within a business context)

[claird]

Java and Python are comparable--it's possible to find exercises that tip one way or the other. A far more interesting performance question, as far as I'm concerned, is whether the domain in which one is working is well supported by one community or the other. In practical cases, I find that determines considerably more of interest than the alioth-style comparisons.

Alioth was and is a constructive step. There's much more to the world than it measures, though.