Jobs: Lisp and Python programmers wanted in the LA area

[John Nagle]

Tech HR wrote:
> In article <1172482314.598240.3440 at j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
>  dixkey at gmail.com wrote:
>>This is more out of curiosity, but does it mean that you wouldn't be
>>willing to listen about a switch from Python to Lisp?
> 
> 
> No, it doesn't mean that.  In fact, there is a significant faction in 
> the technical staff (including the CTO) who would like nothing better 
> than to be able to use Lisp instead of Python.  But we have some pretty 
> compelling reasons to stick with Python, not least of which is that it 
> is turning out to be very hard to find Lisp programmers.

     As someone who knows both languages, I'd stay with Python, although
trying to do heavy number crunching in a naive interpreter may be a problem.

     That's a tough scheduling problem.  It took about a year for the
NetJets people to develop their application for it.

					John Nagle