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(2004) It calls Python "esoteric"! :-D I agree with the sentiment even if the example given hasn't aged well.
by john-tells-all 4y ago
(2004)
It calls Python "esoteric"! :-D
I agree with the sentiment even if the example given hasn't aged well.
- stubish 4y agoI too tend to agree with the sentiment. What isn't mentioned though is that is quite possible to run out of people to hire. Which mostly happened to us, where we had grown and everyone in the relatively small Python community who could and would work for us was working or had worked. We had to move on to another new language (Go), although that did rub a number of the Pythonistas the wrong way.
- unlikelymordant 4y agoCan you hire people who know other languages and train them in python? Why would you need to change languages?
- stubish 4y agoI worded that badly sorry. Only one project switched to Go (a rewrite), and a few new projects where Go from the start. There was still a lot of Python. We hired from Open Source communities (mailing lists, conferences, our own website), and applicants always had at least basic language skills and more importantly a desire to work with it. Once you start hiring people from outside, who are not interested in you or your tech and just interested in a job, you lose the benefits being discussed in the article. One of the reasons we expanded to include Go was to increase the size of the recruitment pool.
- VectorLock 4y agoAround that time it was hard to get people to learn Python because they were turned off over whitespace delineated blocks. You could have their curly braces and semicolons when you pried it from their cold dead fingers.