I was wondering if I should bring this up because I was curious, but then decided not to because it's also a sensitive subject.
> The only reason I'd stay away from > something like this is if I needed to work on it's code and it was in a > language that I wasn't familiar with and didn't have the time to learn. > Agreed. Also, I'd steer clear of something if it was in an aesthetically displeasing language even if I do know it, or have the time to learn. On the other hand if the feature set was compelling enough I might still use it anyway. For example MediaWiki, Wordpress and Drupal fall into this bucket for me. By and large though, my primary driver is productivity. I don't care about much else. If it's more productive (for me), I'll adopt it, whether it's a OS, language, library, tool, community or methodology. Examples for me where I've made switches - OSX, Ruby, IntelliJ, XP, TDD. And if I come across something more productive, I'll switch again. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The project management thread highlighted this issue of "if it's not in > Python, I don't want to use it". > > Assuming that most of the people here are mostly python enthusiasts or > learners, I'm wondering when you would *not* use Python. Let's not > conflate this with Open Source/Closed Source etc. > > I'm just interested in situations where you'd stay away from something > *just* because it isn't in Python. The only reason I'd stay away from > something like this is if I needed to work on it's code and it was in a > language that I wasn't familiar with and didn't have the time to learn. > > Also, there are plently of situations where I'd jump to a language other > than Python at the outset (e.g. for log file parsing, Perl still wins > for me). > > Comments? > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
