The Ideals of a Python Hacker (was: Poll Results)

[Bill Bell]

Jonathan Gardner <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu> wrote, in part:
> [Python] really *is* easier, it really *is* useful, and it really
> *is* debuggable, so why would you want to use C++ when you have
> Python? 

Amen!

> They'd have to be [young]. I can't seem to find a place to get paid to work in
> Python yet. I can't imagine a guy with 3 kids trying to make a living
> by programming python unless he is the rare guy that has a job in it.

AHEM!

I may be a statistical anomaly but I'm almost 55. I now have two 
paying Python projects on the go. True, one is funded by a 
university. However, the other one is for a purely commercial play. 
The president of the company, like me, is a some breed of anarchist.

I plan to use Python to introduce some of the students in the one 
and only MBA course that I do to concepts like threads and sockets 
this winter. (The code is a lot easier to understand than equivalents 
in most other languages.) And I believe I've influenced at least one 
guy aged around 20 to take up this fantastic language. (He might 
even be reading this when he is supposed to be doing his 
schoolwork.)

It's amazing what one can do when one sits in front of a screen and 
rests one's canes against a bookcase. :o)

Peace and bliss, eh.

Bill
"It is the time that you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."--St-Exupery