OT: This Swift thing

[Roy Smith]

In article <87zjhpm8q7.fsf at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>,
 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:
> >> 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.

You are lucky indeed.  Trust me, in big companies, technical decisions 
are often made by people who are not using the technology.