Difficulty Finding Python Developers

[Peter Hansen]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> Offering some comebacks in advance...
>>>>>>"Peter" == Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
>     Peter> And here I would ask, "Why do you say that?  If there are
>     Peter> so few of them around, how could anyone know whether
>     Peter> they're better or worse?  And wouldn't the best programmers
> 
> I guess the braindeadness of perl can be argued as an indication of
> the quality of programmers - if the Perl people are unable to see how
> much the language stinks, they might be lacking in other areas of
> programming also.
> 
> Java OTOH is the lowest common denominator, pretty much everyone knows
> it, which drags the average quality down.

These are comments that Python developers understand.  Try explaining
them to a Perl or Java developer, or more importantly to the OP's
management, and see how far it gets you. :-)

(Also hope that the management type you're talking to wasn't/isn't a
Java developer as well!  :-)

-Peter