Why dishonest? Granted, I approximated, but there are a variety of costs here having to do with making sure the result is reliable and works properly.
Mind you, with that kind of price, I might lose the customer, but think about it, this price has to include things like: * Training costs for myself (assuming I do not know python) * Testing costs for the new system * Finding the right pieces (python 2 or python 3? which of the many libraries are appropriate?) * Hiring costs for the person I am finding to help me * Ongoing maintenance costs Note also that if someone wanted me to do construction work, my prices for that work would probably be higher than the price if they hired someone that had been in the business. I could offer them a lower price, of course, but the resulting work would probably be shoddy or take an excessively long time, because I could not afford to do any better when just getting started. -- Raul On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Neil Murphy <dnmur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds dishonest to me. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 7 Dec 2012, at 12:29, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Of course a real python solution involving an existing implementation >> should be a few lines of python that call into the existing >> implementation... >> >> Anyways, if I were in your situation, I would explain that I expected >> that my python development costs would be about 5x my J development >> costs, and they would be 10x if I had had to develop the python >> version from scratch without first doing the J implementation. >> >> If they agree to pay those costs, I'd go out and hire myself a good >> python programmer to help me out with that part of the implementation. >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
