[Baypiggies] Finding work - Company: Keas (S.F.)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Jun 8 18:01:31 CEST 2009


On Sun, Jun 07, 2009, Andrew Akira Toulouse wrote:
>
> Young people are electing to learn Python, too. It's fairly popular  
> among the savvy programmers I know, and even required for some classes  
> (i.e. CS188 at Berkeley). What reasons could be responsible for the  
> older age skew you suggest?

Python being required for classes is a recent development.  Mainly I
think that Python just happened to attract mostly experienced programmers
for the first fifteen years of its existence.
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