(TLDR: CTO comes in and says "Angular and TypeScript is old. Python is new, and Google is writing everything with it. Python is the best practices for development." Tells IT department to rewrite everything in Python. “If our team still needs to use Angular, just use the Python version.” After failing to convince CTO this is absurd, IT realizes they can do nothing and tell the CTO they totally rewrote everything in Python, since he won't know the difference anyway.)
This case isn't quite that bad, obviously. The request is more reasonable, but still seems to betray a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of the situation.
A CTO of a payment company, so the inquiry to see if it would be possible to replace a large C project in their stack with a drop-in replacement written in a more safe language makes sense from where he's standing.
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I was immediately reminded of this: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/unpythonic
(TLDR: CTO comes in and says "Angular and TypeScript is old. Python is new, and Google is writing everything with it. Python is the best practices for development." Tells IT department to rewrite everything in Python. “If our team still needs to use Angular, just use the Python version.” After failing to convince CTO this is absurd, IT realizes they can do nothing and tell the CTO they totally rewrote everything in Python, since he won't know the difference anyway.)
This case isn't quite that bad, obviously. The request is more reasonable, but still seems to betray a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of the situation.
The sender of the e-mail is also a CTO.
A CTO of a payment company, so the inquiry to see if it would be possible to replace a large C project in their stack with a drop-in replacement written in a more safe language makes sense from where he's standing.
I just realised Python is roughly my age.