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0 pointstechdragon10y ago0 comments

Not in the defence industry.

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engi_nerd10y ago· 2 in thread

I work in the defense industry. Sometimes it is indeed easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, but you must be very careful. Obviously anything that violates any NDAs or security agreements is not to be pushed at all, but I've had no problems writing and running Python and MATLAB programs.

Point is, defense industry doesn't automatically equal a locked down environment.

jkachmar10y ago

I'll chime in here and say that quite a few people in aerospace/defense (at least where I work) prefer Python to some of the more traditionally used tools.

I've written a number of scripts for data analysis and simulation in Python that are much more portable for us since we don't need to get a license to run MATLAB on computers out in the field.

engi_nerd10y ago

I just now (days later) read your profile.

If you're in the EE department...I had your exact same job a year ago. And your main Python users are down the hall in ACS. Those guys are great. Maybe EE has started to change some...since they lost pretty much half the department. For your sake, I hope so.

scrollaway10y ago· 1 in thread

Some industries will be stuck with old versions of just about any language, no matter what. GP actually said he's stuck on 2.6, which means he can't even use 2.7.

_spoonman10y ago

I work in defense. Software approval is for major releases, so he I don't see why he couldn't use 2.7. If he wants to go to 3, that's when he'd have to get approval.

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