I would also be very happy to publish such things in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Python Papers. </span>We
could try to include one each edition, solicited from the readership.
Perhaps one of the above postings could start things off?
<br><br>Cheers,<br>-T<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Karsten</b> <<a href="mailto:carl@personnelware.com">carl@personnelware.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brad Allen wrote:<br> > At 12:21 PM -0600 3/9/07, Carl Karsten wrote:<br> >> So the sad thing is, it took me running into something 'too hard' for<br> >> me to<br> >> learn what I needed to then actually respect Python. And then it
<br> >> wasn't the<br> >> 'hard stuff' that turned me on, it was how 'nice and easy' things<br> >> really are.<br> >> (the problems twisted and generators solve are hard; I am not
<br> >> suggesting the<br> >> solutions could have been done any better.)<br> ><br> > Hey, that's a good testamonial. Have you considered posting that to a<br> > blog? If you do, I will link to it from
<a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a> and see if anybody else<br> > notices it.<br> ><br> > I wonder if there is a list of links to Python testamonials somewhere.<br> > This kind of posting is not as high profile as what might go in the
<br> > success stories, or the "what they are saying" page at <a href="http://Python.org">Python.org</a>. It<br> > would be useful to build a collection of such of links for use by Python<br> > advocates...maybe this is the kind of thing that could go on
<br> > <a href="http://advocacy.python.org">advocacy.python.org</a>.<br> ><br> ><br><br>I don't have any blog going right now. I could create one just to host this<br>post, but that doesn't seem like a good idea. If there is a place to collect
<br>things, feel free to cut/paste it or point me to it.<br><br>I think it is worth poling people to see what things had to be in place to make<br>the light turn on. we may see some trends that are low hanging fruit that we
<br>just didn't know where there.<br><br>What if 40% said "I thought it was too slow, but when forced to use it for so<br>and so realized that it was much faster than I thought." My reaction would be<br>"we need to start doing something to show how fast py is." Which would then be
<br>a new challenge: how do we do that? But it would be a narrower problem than<br>"How do we promote python?"<br><br>Carl K<br>_______________________________________________<br>Advocacy mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Advocacy@python.org">
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