On Monday 08 Feb 2010 4:50:07 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > 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. >
precisely - so managers tend to follow the herd. No doubt python is more secure and useful than asp or whatever - but I can hire asp guys by the container load, whereas python guys are more difficult to come across. And also cost - TCS has 50,000 java programmers - what would it cost to retrain these guys (if they are retrainable) to python? In short, popularity is the last thing one should look at when evaluating a tool (unless one is a suit) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
