age of Python programmers

Reid Nichol rnichol_rrc at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 20 18:33:15 EDT 2004


Tim Hochberg wrote:
> Reid Nichol wrote:
> 
>> Gerrit Muller wrote:
>>
>>> Roel Schroeven wrote:
>>>
>>>> Roel Schroeven wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I spotted some errors in your list, added new entries, and made a 
>>>>> histogram: http://roelschroeven.net/pythonages/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Very cool. It might be good idea to add a date and time at the top, 
>>> since new datapoint keep coming in?
>>
>>
>> How about labels for the axes as well.
>>
>>
>>> and then a quantum leap towards Python.
>>
>>
>> You're aware that a quantum leap means a extremely small leap, right?
> 
> 
> While quanta are typically very-very-very small, last I checked the key 
> feature of quantum transitions is not that they're small, but that there 
> are no intermediate steps. The object is in state A then it's in state 
> B, but it's never halfway (or anywhere) between. Like most quantum stuff 
> it's better not to think about that too closely.
> 
> -tim
> 

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