Funding vs Python

[Andy Freeman]

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.)

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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