OT: This Swift thing

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/06/2014 09:20, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> 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.
>

Clearly manpower isn't an issue.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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