[Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Dec 13 02:36:45 CET 2004

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:32, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:

For those who believe that a non-profit project should not do any marketing, a reminder. If the perception about Python is one of a slow language, it's much more difficult to find places where you can use Python. In the long run, many of us may be forced to work with other languages & tools, just because that's where the money is. I personally take it a matter of personal interest, because I know how hard it is to "sell" Python to companies here in Brazil.

Actually, there's another problem in the corporate world that has nothing to do with Python's performance (at least not directly). When a manager has to hire 25 programmers for a project they think to themselves, "well, Java programmers are a dime a dozen so I'll have no problem finding warm bodies if we write it in Java. Can I even /find/ 25 Python programmers?"

-Barry

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