OT: This Swift thing

Sat Jun 7 04:32:26 EDT 2014

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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