How popular is Python, anyway? (was: Long Live Python!)

Rainy sill at optonline.net
Fri Jul 13 18:26:51 EDT 2001


On 13 Jul 2001 11:59:09 +0300, Ville Vainio <vvainio at karhu.tp.spt.fi> wrote:
> sill at optonline.net (Rainy) writes:
> 
>> 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 :-/."
> 
> And that's when you reached for your revolver?

No, the script was fairly short, maybe a hundred lines. It was also the kind of
script that you write once and never have to extend, so doing it in perl wasn't
a problem. The only bit of trouble I had was that stepping through each
character in a string is trickier in perl than in python (also considering that
it was my first (and last) shot at doing perl). 

> 
> I understand why it was your previous job, not current :-). This
> brings to my mind the techie Prima donna article referenced in
> slashdot a while ago:
> 
> http://www.itrecruitermag.com/magazine/display-management101.asp?ContentID=603

Amusing.

> 
> I assume it would require quite a "team player" to agree to do
> something as revolting as turning a beautiful piece of python to a
> heap of line noise.

Well, it just happened so that I would rather have done any sort of coding,
even perl, than do the other part of my job (very repetitive image
manipulation).
> 


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