Paul Boddie wrote: > Ray wrote: (snip) >> We're a Java shop so >> our developers are trained in Java, Struts, Tomcat, etc. Any switch to >> a dynamic language will be a huge change. However it baffles me that >> they are open to at least a PoC in Rails. but when I suggested Python, >> they went: "nah we're not interested in Python. Rails it is." >> >> *shrugs* whatever it is, those guys are doing something right. > > Making the Java people feel like they're doing something wrong, I > guess. And perhaps the Rails people realised that by giving those > people who lack direction, motivation, conviction or a sense of purpose > or control something to gravitate towards, some of them might feel > empowered enough to evangelise their discovery to the rest of the > group. >
FWIW, and while it's certainly not enough by itself to explain the phenomenon, I think that Ruby's object model being much more conventional than Python's may have some influence too on RoR's adoption by the Java world. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list