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I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project. He liked it
and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it. Python is on the list of
approved languages at Boeing. The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise
level program in Python. He reports that it would have take ten times the
lines of code in another language.

Max M. Stalnaker <> wrote:

> I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project. He liked it
> and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it. Python is on the list of
> approved languages at Boeing. The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise
> level program in Python. He reports that it would have take ten times the
> lines of code in another language.

Great! Now if this could be contributed as an article for
pythonology.org, it would be preserved for posterity...!-)


Alex

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Max M. Stalnaker <> wrote:
>
>
>>I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project. He liked it
>>and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it. Python is on the list of
>>approved languages at Boeing. The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise
>>level program in Python. He reports that it would have take ten times the
>>lines of code in another language.
>
>
> Great! Now if this could be contributed as an article for
> pythonology.org, it would be preserved for posterity...!-)
>
I don't mind writing it up and formattng it, if we can get in touch with
the person at boeing.

Tim

Tim Parkin wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>>Max M. Stalnaker <> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project. He liked it
>>>and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it. Python is on the list of
>>>approved languages at Boeing. The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise
>>>level program in Python. He reports that it would have take ten times the
>>>lines of code in another language.
>>
>>
>>Great! Now if this could be contributed as an article for
>>pythonology.org, it would be preserved for posterity...!-)
>>
>
> I don't mind writing it up and formattng it, if we can get in touch with
> the person at boeing.
>
I have a contact at Boeing who acts as the Python "product manager" -
once we can identify the user he might also be able to help.

regards
Steve
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