Timeline for Is it okay to use a language that isn't supported by your company for some tasks?
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| Nov 22, 2022 at 17:44 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @JohnGainesJr. Similar experience here but eventually python was adopted. It's meteoric rise in popularity helped a lot. | |
| Oct 18, 2012 at 19:17 | comment | added | John Gaines Jr. | I'm living this right now. I hacked up a proof of concept in Python to help me figure out some crappy old C code, and actually got the whole mess working as a replacement for the old C code, but was asked to rewrite back to C after making the new changes work. I did manage keep some Python around, I wrote up small web app using Python + Flask and my manager and I use it constantly to analyze the running C code's operations. So there's still hope that Python will get formally adopted around here. :) | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 15:27 | comment | added | Angelo | +1, agree. I can see how this sort of thing can very easily happen but it is not necessarily "a bad thing" or "a mistake" on the part of the OP. It probably started when the OP was tasked with a "one-off" mini-project and he chose a good tool, python, to quickly clear his desk of the project-- but then found himself performing the task again and again... | |
| Sep 12, 2010 at 12:09 | vote | accept | systempuntoout | ||
| Sep 9, 2010 at 11:37 | history | edited | ChrisF♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 9, 2010 at 11:32 | history | answered | ChrisF♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |