Re: Two points of "sale"

In my own shop, I was able to introduce Python by using it for 
"non-chartered" tools.  We're big on building tools to help automate 
the development process.  There's no charter for these tool-building 
projects, meaning there's no requirement coming down from management to 
do them, and thus there's no approval process needed.

I wrote a lot of my own tools in Python.  If other people found the 
tools useful, they started using them.  In this way, I never tried to 
"sell" Python, it just sort of showed up in the ecosystem and 
eventually people became comfortable with the idea that they were 
cohabitating with it.


On Mar 4, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Stephan Deibel wrote:

> From the recent emails, I felt the need to point out that there are
> basically two points at which you can sell Python:
>
> 1) At programming project startup.  As in Strakt's case, some managers
>    are open to considering Python; remember many of them know how to
>    program and have some appreciation that tools matter.