OT: This Swift thing

[Alain Ketterlin]

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> On 07/06/2014 09:20, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
>> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> 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.

> Clearly manpower isn't an issue.

No. Cost is the issue (development, maintenance, operation,
liability...). Want an example? Here is one:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/06/06/1443218/gm-names-and-fires-engineers-involved-in-faulty-ignition-switch

-- Alain.