How popular is Python, anyway? (was: Long Live Python!)
Paul Boddie
paul at boddie.net
Tue Jul 17 07:15:40 EDT 2001
sill at optonline.net (Rainy) wrote in message news:<slrn9ks0mh.9oi.sill at sill.silmarill.org>...
>
> "I meant more like sending somewhere my resume saying I know python and did
> this and that, and getting hired. I actually did use some python at my
> previous job (some cgi/image manipulation). I was then asked to redo it
> in perl :-/."
I can't stand it when that kind of thing happens. In your case, you
were using a language with some pretty potent tools available for it
to get the job done. A similar kind of idiocy was once imposed on me,
forcing me to rewrite various CGI-based programs in C++ of all
horrors. Insane!
Paul
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