Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Saager Mhatre wrote: > Not to sound overly disparaging, but that argument reeks of survivorship > bias, or at least confirmation bias.What about all the shops looking for > python devs but not finding any good ones; you know, like the ones that > aren't connected

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Saager Mhatre wrote: > Some would beg to differ http://tek.io/1yjHw0U > Companies are polyglot from a long time. This talk about developers and some of their grudges :) And author is choosing to overlook technologies like Apache thrift and Protobuf technologies

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-24 Thread Saager Mhatre
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > [...] > > From my experience at Akamai Bangalore, when we had to hire Java developers > for my team, we had 100s of resumes competing for single spot, but we > looked for "quality" python developers, there were very less < 10 (and all > of

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-24 Thread Saager Mhatre
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > [...] Given that world is moving to multiple language shops and almost all > companies will use more than one language in their offerings Some would beg to differ http://tek.io/1yjHw0U - d

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-17 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Python does not have the push that Java and .Net has from the corporate world. Java and .Net/C# has strong ecosystem of tools too. And surprisingly PHP in open source world got a good adoption by being at the right time for a specific solution. So, in India we see PHP, Java and .Net as primary pla

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Sun, Sep 14 2014, sayantan bhattacharya wrote: > Hello all, > > I work at TCS and they didn't know about Python either. Now that I > have written a script that does the log monitoring easy for the > Application support guys, they have accepted the language. But there > seems to be a resistance

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-13 Thread sayantan bhattacharya
Hello all, I work at TCS and they didn't know about Python either. Now that I have written a script that does the log monitoring easy for the Application support guys, they have accepted the language. But there seems to be a resistance among the people using Java to accept that Python is powerful

Re: [BangPypers] Python is still greek to india's top IT firms

2014-09-13 Thread Bibhas
On 09/13/2014 01:27 PM, Asif Jamadar wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-Indias-top-IT-firms/articleshow/41535783.cms NEW DELHI: Recently, one of India's top software co