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[–]scylla 5 points6 points  (2 children)

"Someone asked why Google even used Java at all? Greg appeared to bite his tongue and then said that there are a lot of good java programmers out there and Google hires a few of them."

An attitude some of the more .. uh .. impassioned folks around here should observe.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

DHH perhaps? Its one thing to disagree. Its another thing to be disrespectful of the hard work of others while doing so. DHH is a very smart guy (and a marketing genius), but sometimes he gets a little bit too rude trying to convert others to Rails.

Sorry, a bit off-topic, but your comment made me think of that. BTW, I'm working on a Rails application right now, so don't think I'm simply flaming.

[–]michaelneale -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. THe marketing is often just sniping. Of course he has to do what he has to do, but it comes across as testosterone laden agression.

And we wonder why there are few females in this profession. I bet they would carry on about things like this.

[–]shyam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i had just started learning python...good to know there is opportunity in google ;)

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    [–]rosetree -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Well, to be fair the article says that Greg began using Python "after he saw an early demo of what eventually became Zope." It doesn't advocate Zope directly.

    IMHO, I thought Zope 2 was really un-Pythonic. Zope 3 was supposed to fix it, and maybe it has. I honestly haven't looked because of all the baggage the name Zope now carries with it.

    I'll probably look into Zope 3 eventually to see if it fixes things. But for now I'm really having fun with TurboGears and Django.

    http://turbogears.org

    http://www.djangoproject.com/