> Hmm, on my PyCon mug there are words "Python: so easy...even your BOSS > can use it!"
Oh man! I would've killed for a mug like that a year ago. I was working for this guy, who had the entire build process automated in .BAT scripts. We spent more time fixing the build process than devoloping our product. Anyway, I started to move the entire thing to Python. Using a real programming language, allows creating a more robust process. It also allows separating data and code, which comes very handy when the data changes to not have to touch the code. So a year ago, I moved to another department. I would not get into the details of why, but I am just going to say that I'm much happier now. One day, I walking down the hall, and I see a book in my old boss' desk: "Learning Perl." I thought to my self, "You gotta be kiddin". So I saw him in the coffee area, and I asked him about it. His answer was, "Yeah, I'm re-writing the build scripts in Perl because you are the only one that knew Python, and we need to maintain them." Well, there is no-one in that team that knows Perl either, and if they haven't been able to learn Python in the couple of years I tried to push it, I really doubt they are going to learn Perl. Or maybe, the problem was that I was trying to push Python, so they are doing this just to prove me wrong. Like I said, I'm much happier now, and so much glad to be out of that team. Thanks, - Isaac. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
