__call__ bad style? (was Re: Callable modules?)

[Michael Gilfix]

  That's interesting because I went into EE in school precisely
because I wanted to learn to build stuff, even though I knew I was
always going to do CS when I graduated. And then of course, when
looking for a job, I said I wanted a pure software job but could do
hardware if I had to :) But then again, I start my first real industry
job in 3 weeks.

                  -- Mike

On Fri, Jul 26 @ 13:57, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Me neither: I wanted to design hardware.  I chose electronic engineering,
> then hardware design specialties within that, a thesis in the HW field, and
> jobs with Texas Instruments, then with IBM Research, each meant to be
> about hw design.  Each and every time the "hw" job turned out to be about
> designing, coding and/or maintaining programs to test, design, simulate
> and/or exercise hardware.  At which point I resigned myself to the fact
> that the universe wanted me to do software, not hardware, and learned
> to like it.  Haven't even _pretended_ to design a chip in 20 years now.

-- 
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