Funding vs Python

[Armin at Steinhoff_de.bbs]

In article <8kt4rj$d4n$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Andy says...
>
>I was tired of hearing a friend talk about how wonderful Python is,
>so I decided to learn Python by using it to implement a product that
>the official implementation team thought would take experts 1-2 man
>years using numerous Java buzz-words.  A month later, I'm still a
>Python newbie, but I'm close enough to done that I'm looking at
>the rev 2 feature list.  (The experts are still trying to hire
>but are going to start any day because other folks like running
>code more than they like plans.)
>
>No good deed goes unpunished, so now I'm getting push back along the
>lines of "we can't get funded if it's in Python".  (Somehow, I don't
>think that using Perl would have produced the same reaction.)

Well ... compile your Python sources into C++ or use JPython in order to
generate JAVA code :-))

Regards

Armin

>
>I've seen the list of web projects at python.org, so I'm wondering
>if there are others or if there really are examples of companies that
>didn't get funded because they used Python.
>
>-andy
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