Article of interest: Python pros/cons for the enterprise

[Jeff Schwab]

Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
>> On Behalf Of Jeff Schwab
>> When I see this silliness again and again, it really breaks 
>> my heart
> 
> If you allow your heart to be broken by others' opinions, you're setting
> yourself up for a lot of disappointment IMHO.

It's not so much their opinions, as the fact that their opinions 
strongly influence their work.  But you're probably right, anyway.


> I personally used C++ for about 90% of my code for 10 years. During that
> time, I was chugging the C++ Kool-Aid so hard I almost peed myself.> I still
> think that C++ is a beautiful language, but I have also come to think that
> starting a program with C++ is a premature optimization. 

I'm not much of a Kool Aid drinker. :)  I just tend to find, when I 
develop anything non-trivial in a language other than C++, that I wish I 
had used C++, because it would have allowed me to enforce design 
semantics more efficiently.  Optimization has nothing to do with it; I'm 
a firm believer in profiling before you optimize.


> I think that very few Python programmers today started with Python. Most of
> them came to Python for a reason. 

For several reasons, even!