How popular is Python, anyway? (was: Long Live Python!)

[Rainy]

On 17 Jul 2001 04:15:40 -0700, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.net> wrote:
> sill at optonline.net (Rainy) wrote in message news:<slrn9ks0mh.9oi.sill at sill.silmarill.org>...
>> 
>> "I meant more like sending somewhere my resume saying I know python and did
>> this and that, and getting hired. I actually did use some python at my
>> previous job (some cgi/image manipulation). I was then asked to redo it
>> in perl :-/."
> 
> I can't stand it when that kind of thing happens. In your case, you
> were using a language with some pretty potent tools available for it
> to get the job done. A similar kind of idiocy was once imposed on me,
> forcing me to rewrite various CGI-based programs in C++ of all
> horrors. Insane!

That's just bizarre! Good thing they haven't heard that assembly is
the fastest, they'd have you do CGI stuff in it ;-).

> 
> Paul


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