Magnus Lycka wrote: > Stuart Turner wrote: > >>Hi Everyone, >> >>I'm working hard trying to get Python 'accepted' in the organisation I work >>for. I'm making some good in-roads. One chap sent me the text below on >>his views of Python. I wondered if anyone from the group could give me >>some advice on how to respond / if they had been in a similar position. [...] > Life would be easy if tools were only chosen on technincal, economical > and practical merits... > Altogether now" "If I ruled the world ..."
> To put things into perspective, it's important to get beyond the very > broad categories of programming languages. It's pointless to judge > Python on the merits of Perl or AWK, just because a certain label is > sometimes applied to all three. That would be like saying that Java > is more or less like COBOL. (OO COBOL?) > Quite. People have said exactly that, you know ;-) http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=42242 [...] regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
