In article <87zjhpm8q7....@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>, Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote: > >> Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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. You are lucky indeed. Trust me, in big companies, technical decisions are often made by people who are not using the technology. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
