OT: This Swift thing

[Alain Ketterlin]

Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> writes:

> Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Many of these students suggest Python as the
>>>> development language (they learned it and liked it), and the suggestion
>>>> is (almost) always rejected, in favor of Java or C# or C/C++.
>>> 
>>> And it was almost always the wrong decision...
>> 
>> I think they know better than you and me.
>
> Now it's my turn to say "oh, come on". Those who make these decisions have
> likely never written a line of code in their life.

This totally contradicst my experience. I've heard horror stories like
everybody else, but I just have been lucky enough to work with people
that very seriously evaluate their engineering decisions.

-- Alain.