Is Eric S Raymond still a "Pythoneer"

Paddy McCarthy paddy3118 at netscape.net
Tue Mar 2 14:00:25 EST 2004


paddy3118 at netscape.net (Paddy McCarthy) wrote in message news:<2ae25c6b.0403020006.6b99e590 at posting.google.com>...
> I just re-read "Why Python?" at
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882
> The article is from 2000 and shows how a programmer who programmed in
> many programming languages, and who wrote compilers and interpreters,
> was introduced to Python and came to like it.
> 
> I wondered if there are any more recent interviews/articles from ESR
> on his scripting language tools. I would be interested to know if he
> still usesPython? Did he try any other "scripting" languages such as
> Ruby or Lua?
> 
> I'm going to add the article to my bookmarks for ammo in trying to
> change my strictly Perl workplace to at least consider Python.
> 
> (I should add that I do know of most of the good advocacy resources
> available, I've  collected them from answers to other peoples posts,
> thanks).
> 
> Thanks again,  Paddy.

Oh, no! I sent the above, then found the right thing to search for in
Google and came up with this interview from January:
  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3306511

It seems ESR is still a Pythoneer, and I have another important
article to add to my trove.

Thanks for the other replies, Ill follow them up to.



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