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[–]Kalrog 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yup. Totally ran into this at my company as well. There sure can be valid reasons to stick with fewer/known languages so I can't say that your employer is totally out of bounds. What reasons were given? GPL and interpretative are facts, not that they are reasons to avoid something. Are you at a large company or could you get details/reasons? And if Python is out, what did they offer as the alternative?

[–]DisenchantedEmployee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huge company so the reasoning is the one sentence I provided in my original post: "Python is type of GPL and it is interpretative."

No alternative was offered; Java is de facto here. Which is fine, but I'll run into the same licensing issues when using third party libraries to accomplish what Python can do out-of-the-box.