Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-15 Thread Aahz
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004, Gregory P. Smith wrote: Attribution deleted: No one disagrees that Python needs better marketing material. At the last PyCon a group of people sat down in a pydotorg BoF and agreed that yes, we do need a management-friendly marketing site, and that we could put it on a

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-15 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:21:58PM -0800, Gregory P. Smith wrote: suggested hostname: why.python.org It's only a matter of taste, probably, but that looks a bit ugly for my eyes. May be use.python.org? corp.python.org? Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmannhttp://phd.pp.ru/

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
Oleg Broytmann wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:21:58PM -0800, Gregory P. Smith wrote: suggested hostname: why.python.org It's only a matter of taste, probably, but that looks a bit ugly for my eyes. May be use.python.org? corp.python.org? about.python.org? And if someone ends up playing with

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-15 Thread Stephan Deibel
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Aahz wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004, Gregory P. Smith wrote: Attribution deleted: No one disagrees that Python needs better marketing material. At the last PyCon a group of people sat down in a pydotorg BoF and agreed that yes, we do need a management-friendly

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-13 Thread Stephan Deibel
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Carlos Ribeiro wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:36:45 -0500, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-13 Thread Batista, Facundo
Title: RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places [Stephan Deibel] #- For example, a September article in InfoWorld said But the #- big winner #- this time around is the object-oriented scripting language #- Python, which #- saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost

RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-13 Thread Stephan Deibel
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Batista, Facundo wrote: [Stephan Deibel] #- For example, a September article in InfoWorld said But the #- big winner #- this time around is the object-oriented scripting language #- Python, which #- saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last #- year's

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-13 Thread Bill Janssen
That's right - when I talk to fellow programmers that I'm writing software in Python, many of them are amazed and ask me, but isn't it slow?. I've heard it more than once... I heard it last month. In the last couple of months, an acquaintance of mine has been trying out Python. He likes the

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
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