Encouraging Python adoption in your organization

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Mon Oct 4 05:05:35 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Miki" == Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com> writes:

    Miki> 3. When asked about time estimation say something like "in
    Miki> C/C++/Java" it'll be around two weeks, in Python I can do it
    Miki> in less than one"

One *week*? More like one day for many classes of problems. What's
important is that often a small program that is not worth implementing
at all in C++/Java is trivial in Python, and so the diffrence is one
b/w doing stuff manually vs. having an automated solution.

    Miki> 4. Be ready for talk about run time performance. Due to
    Miki> modern hardware Python is "fast enough" and you can always
    Miki> recode stuff in C/C++ using the C API or just use psyco.

Yes. It's important to note that there is absolutely no
lock-in. Python keeps being used because it rocks, not because the
company is stuck with it.

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