On Friday 02 June 2006 13:07, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >>>>> "A.M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AM) wrote: > > > >AM> This is my 1st day that I am seriously diving into Python and I have > >AM> to finish this application by the end of today. > > Are you serious? > -- > Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] > Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's not that unfeasible - I can think of a few instances off the top of my head where management have read something in a magazine or heard something in conversation, then come in full of vim and vigour the next day - telling people to create item X using buzzword technology Y by the end of the day, the week or whatever, despite the devs having never seen it, despite the timescale being insufficient, and despite there being *real* work to do. Even if it's just because they want to see it, or to impress other management types with their use of the latest "trend", I believe the best response is to just get on with it. Self-preservation and all that. Even so, the idea of using python across the company is actually a very sensible one, so I expect it's programmer's enthusiasm fuelling things in this case. -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
