does anybody earn a living programming in python?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Wed Sep 27 09:17:28 EDT 2006


In article 
<pan.2006.09.27.13.11.34.185704 at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:00:55 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> > This seems to be a very, very silly original post. I know of plenty of
> > people who make a living programming Python. It's been the vast
> > majority of the programming (for money) I've done in the last ten
> > years, and there's countless other people I know here in Melbourne in
> > the same position.
> 
> Countless people? Are we talking aleph-zero people (countable infinity) or
> one of the uncountable infinities?

Countless and uncountable are not the same thing.  The former simply means 
you haven't bothered to count them yet, which as a basis for number theory, 
sounds like it belongs in a Douglas Adams book.



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