[python-advocacy] Need Help in Preparing for Study of Python by Forrester Research

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

I've read through the document. It seems basically okay, although
highly web-oriented. There are still *some* desktop developers left in
the world!

I was a little disappointed not to see more on the community -- e.g.
engagement of the community, activity in support fora, availability of
books and tutorials etc.

The questions looked like a reasonable checklist if you were
developing an enterprise web app, but didn't really turn out very much
about the language itself, or cover elegance, programming style.

It would probably be good to see a few standard algorithms implemented
in each language rather than allowing each language to submit whatever
they like. A bit of both might be nice.

Just my 2c.

Cheers,
-T

On 5/2/07, Jeff Rush <jeff at taupro.com> wrote:
> Forrester Research is doing a study on dynamic languages and has asked that
> Python be represented.  As advocacy coordinator I've volunteered to drive
> this, collecting answers from the community and locating representatives to
> participate in interviews.
>
> The goal of the study is to:
>
>  - identify the criteria to use for evaluating such languages
>  - identify the relevant choices of dynamic languages
>  - identify how the different dynamic languages stack up
>  - examine where dynamic languages work best
>
> Initially, they'd like feedback (not yet the answers themselves) from us
> regarding their proposed evaluation criteria - questions to add or that give
> no value, rewording to make them more clear.  I've posted their draft
> criteria, which came as a spreadsheet at:
>
>   http://dfwpython.org/uploads/ForresterPrep/DynamicLanguagesCriteria.xls
>
> Later, between May 8 and 25, the researchers will need to interview via 1-hour
> telephone calls, several developers with experience using Python.  And they
> want to also interview one person with an executive viewpoint, able to
> describe relevant background, positioning, value proposition, customer base,
> and strategic vision.
>
> And later they would also like snippets of Python code that illustrate the
> power of Python, and I hope to call upon community members to help in
> producing that.  The snippets do not have to be originally written and can be
> pulled from existing projects.
>
> But those steps come later.  For now let's focus on analysis of the evaluation
> criteria at the above URL.  Time is short as they'd like that feedback by May
> 3, so please get any responses to me as soon as possible.  And be thinking who
> would best represent the executive view of Python in an interview.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Jeff Rush
> Advocacy Coordinator
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