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

[Alex Martelli]

Jonathan Hogg wrote:

> On 26/7/2002 12:33, in article Ora09.122577$Jj7.2838699 at news1.tin.it,
> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> 
>> (BTW, I've been programming for over _25_ years now -- more than
>> half of my life...).
> 
> Hmmm... over 18 years, about 2/3rds of my life. Never thought of it that
> way before.
> 
> I don't recall ever intending to be a computer programmer...

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.


Alex