Rant: www.python.org

Tim Peters tim.one at home.com
Sun May 27 01:17:24 EDT 2001


[Don Tuttle]
> Pretend you're a high school marketing teacher.  You've given
> your class the assignment to promote Python.  Little Johny says,
> "I know! Iknow!  Let's sell t-shirts!"
>
> You say, "Great idea!" and ask him to show you how he would market them.
> Sometime later he comes back and shows you with pride the
> modification he's made to the Python web site.  It's merely one
> line. It says:
>
>     "PythonLabs T-shirts are now on sale! Write melissa at digicool.com"
>
> How would you explain to him the errors of his ways?

You've uncovered Guido's dark secret!  Yes, he failed high school marketing
four years straight.  Some people believe that puts him at a disadvantage in
his struggle with Bill Gates for world domination, but I'm not so sure about
that.  People who manage to get a Python t-shirt must really want one, and
those are the kind of people who won't run for home when the bullets start
flying <wink>.

in-t-shirt-sales-we're-already-beating-microsoft-ly y'rs  - tim





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