newbie confession

[emile at fenx.com]

<the whole group together now>

HI STEVE!

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

sn <smnordby at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<39203962.2685CFB3 at yahoo.com>...
> My name is Steve and I'm a Pythonoholic.
> 
> It started innocently enough.  Like many people, I experimented with
> BASIC.  It was just for fun.  "I can quit any time I want," I said.
> 
> Then I found the Web and started coding HTML.  "Just one more page and
> I'll quit," I kept telling myself.  But soon I was dabbling in
> Javascripts.  "It's just a phase," my friends said.  I struggled to hide
> my all night Java compiling binges.
> 
> I started downloading C/C++ tutorials, but before I could get my hands
> on a compiler, I ran into Python.
> 
> Soon I was up to three, four scripts per day.  I needed help.  My
> bookstore sold me books by Lutz and Grayson.  I was building Tk gui's.
> It was getting hard to hide my habit from co-workers.
> 
> Then the boss confronted me: "Can you write something to make this
> project work?"
> 
> "I don't know, but let me try," I said, trying to hide my grin.  In two
> weeks I came up with something the $1000-a-day consultant said wasn't
> doable.
> 
> So, yes, I am hooked.
> 
> My name is Steve, and I'm a Pythonoholic.
> 
> 
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