How to sell Python to your boss?

[Bill Anderson]

randall_burns_hp at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> In article <ka8yaf7d84t.fsf at delightful.cs.hut.fi>,
>   Petri Mikael Kuittinen <eye at niksula.hut.fi>
> wrote:
> > I have lots of programming experience in C, and
> >much less in Python. Despite this I am confident
> >that I would be able to implement
> > the prototype using Python many times faster
> >than using C.
> Well, I agree that you are representative of a
> big constituency out there. We've been making
> substantial use of Python at HP/Cupertino and our
> experience so far indicates that Python can be
> used to develop programs rapidly that can be
> maintained easily.

Some of us, a growing number in fact, are using Python extensively at
teh Boise site as well. :-)

> So far, one of our biggest issues has been finding
> developers enthusiastic about developing in
> Python.  I've seen lots of folks who are rather
> pessimistic about Python's future(my current boss
> is not among them).
> 
> If anyone would like to talk to me about Python
> opportunities at HP/Cupertino, I'd be happy
> to speak with them(we are doing some substantial
> e-commerce applications in Python).

Are you using Zope for any of it?

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