Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > On 07/06/2014 09:20, Alain Ketterlin wrote: >> Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Many of these students suggest Python as the >>>>>> development language (they learned it and liked it), and the suggestion >>>>>> is (almost) always rejected, in favor of Java or C# or C/C++. >>>>> >>>>> And it was almost always the wrong decision... >>>> >>>> I think they know better than you and me. >>> >>> Now it's my turn to say "oh, come on". Those who make these decisions have >>> likely never written a line of code in their life. >> >> This totally contradicst my experience. I've heard horror stories like >> everybody else, but I just have been lucky enough to work with people >> that very seriously evaluate their engineering decisions. > Clearly manpower isn't an issue. No. Cost is the issue (development, maintenance, operation, liability...). Want an example? Here is one: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/06/06/1443218/gm-names-and-fires-engineers-involved-in-faulty-ignition-switch -- Alain. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
