A little advice please? (Convert my boss to Python)

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:21:47 -0400
Peter Hansen wrote:

> Most of the time when someone concludes Python is not fast
> enough, they have a situation where something is expected
> to run once or twice a day, and it might take ten minutes
> with Python and one minute with C, and they conclude that
> is too slow...  meanwhile the C version is buggy, took 
> four times longer to develop, and nobody likes to maintain
> it because the code is five times longer than the Python
> one would be.  

Especially when the money saved by developing in Python versus C could easily
cover the cost of a faster PC (or two).  It seems so bizarre that there are
people who would spend $10,000 (or more) in developer time to optimize an
in-house program rather than simply spend $1000 on a new PC.

-- 
Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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