[OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> He was majorly turned off
>> by the whole thing of significant whitespace and basically just told
>> me "there will be no Python here". Bah.)
>
> I had programmed in perl for 20 years, then got a job at place where
> the boss made the edict "There will be no perl here, only python." I
> resisted, complained, grumbled and struggled for a few months, but now
> I thank him every time I see him.

I managed to convince him to let me use Pike for a lot of the work,
though I suspect that - now that we're no longer working together -
he's ripping a lot of it out in favour of either PHP or JavaScript.
And that's a job I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

ChrisA