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

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>         ...
> >> Bingo.  I had much the same approach for the first 20 years
> >> or so of my programming career,
> > 
> > Then I'm ahead of you by ... erm ... 13 years.  Wow, I've been
> > programming (admittedly only as a hobbyist) for nearly a third of my
> > life.  That's scary somehow.
> 
> Yes, the thought of a 99+ yo person who's been programming
> for almost 33+ years is indeed pretty scary.
> 
> OTOH, if you were _behind_ me by 13 years, 

I meant that I learnt something in 13 less years than it took you.  Of
course having oldies like you to point out these facts probably helped
me pick them up... <wink>.

> rather than ahead, then programming for 7 years out of 21 wouldn't
> be (scary).

Well, I'm counting from 16 as that's when I bought CodeWarrior for the
Mac and learnt a "real" programming language (C++).  If I counted from
my first program in BASIC, that would be ... erm ... from 10 or so, so
well over half my life...

> (BTW, I've been programming for over _25_ years now -- more than
> half of my life...).

Of course, I've only been a paid programmer for ~six months, only a
fourty-seventh or so of my life.  Somehow that doesn't seem so
significant :)

Cheers,
M.

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