Why so few Python jobs?
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Mon Sep 24 16:22:35 EDT 2001
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:48:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:25:22AM -0400, David Lees wrote:
> > My small company now has about 8 software engineers and an equal number
> > of hardware types. I have found a lot more interest in Python among the
> > hardware types (FPGA, board layout..) than the software types. The
> > software engineers almost all know perl and I have been in a constant
> > battle to be allowed to use Python. It is a chicken and egg issue that
> > boils down to maintenance of deliverables and inertia. I come from the
> > optics/engineering world rather than computer science and picked Python
> > on my own as a prototyping tool (I don't know perl). If schools start
> > using Python in big numbers, perhaps the popularity issue will be
> > solved.
>
> At my workplace python is viewed with extreme suspicion by the
> software engineering people for one simple reason: They're extremely
> suspicious of the indentation issue (see my earlier post on this).
> Apart from that they think it seems like a fine language. Ho hum. I'll
> get there in the end.
Also, don't discount human nature... Your colleagues are not going to
embrace something that will make them obsolete. I would think argument
about indentation is just pretext used to mask self-interest.
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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
8 CPU cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Sc.
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