On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> > wrote: > > On Monday 08 Feb 2010 4:17:23 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: > >> So to put it simply - there is no simple cut and dry answer. If you look > >> beyond the Marketing and a bit of the resultant herd mentality, you will > >> realise that most languages have a good sweetspot they manage to excel > at. > >> And thats what drives popularity > >> > > > > excellent answer - but you should add that choice of language and > platform is > > most often done by suits without domain knowledge and on extraneous > > considerations[..] > > The converse where 'hackers' don't understand the forces that drive > businesses is equally (if not more) true. > > Managers who manage people and are answerable to customers and have to > worry about things like their superstar Python programmer deciding > that the manager spoke to him the wrong way and leaving the company. > He has to worry about being able to find talent, he has to worry about > how much to pay the people, existing codebases and tons of other > things that (more often than not), the 'rockstar programmer' misses > with his purely tech driven myopic view of the real world. > > > Good point. There was a post I wrote along similar lines (thought this was in the context of Scala) http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2009/08/why-should-i-switch-to-scala/ Some might consider it a digression but I thought it was important in the context of the point brought out by Noufal. > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > Dhananjay -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene http://twitter.com/_pythonic _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers