Hello all, Just to complement my previous remarks, I would like to point out how do a competing language defines itself in its own website. The perl.org website has a simple faq that is a good piece of marketing. What follows are direct quotes, just to point out how ot handle the market perception about their quality & speed.
-- "Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others." (A claim can't possibly be any more generic than this. Strangely enough, it mentions only older languages -- not Java, C++, or even Python (!). This is possibly a sign of an old quote, but anyway: it has a good marketing effect, specially for non-techies.) -- "Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%." (BTW, this quote is embarrassing misleading -- it probably means that Perl is 20x slower when started on a request basis by the web server, and that embedding it will accelerate response by a huge factor. I'm sure non-techies will read it as "Perl is able to accelerate my server 20x!") Of course, the point here is not Perl-bashing. The point here is that we should be able to "sell" Python better than we do now, even without the need to resort to such poor measures. I'm sure the Python community does have good & creative people that can write a good "selling" FAQ for Python, emphasizing the main points of the language. 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. -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
