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[Steve Holden]

Tim Parkin wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
>>Max M. Stalnaker <astar at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project.  He liked it
>>>and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it.  Python is on the list of
>>>approved languages at Boeing.  The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise
>>>level program in Python.  He reports that it would have take ten times the
>>>lines of code in another language.
>>
>>
>>Great!  Now if this could be contributed as an article for
>>pythonology.org, it would be preserved for posterity...!-)
>>
> 
> I don't mind writing it up and formattng it, if we can get in touch with
> the person at boeing.
> 
I have a contact at Boeing who acts as the Python "product manager" - 
once we can identify the user he might also be able to help.

regards
  Steve
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