On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> He was majorly turned off >> by the whole thing of significant whitespace and basically just told >> me "there will be no Python here". Bah.) > > I had programmed in perl for 20 years, then got a job at place where > the boss made the edict "There will be no perl here, only python." I > resisted, complained, grumbled and struggled for a few months, but now > I thank him every time I see him.
I managed to convince him to let me use Pike for a lot of the work, though I suspect that - now that we're no longer working together - he's ripping a lot of it out in favour of either PHP or JavaScript. And that's a job I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list