Python PygLatin

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:21 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:

> If one looks at the Forbes List, you will 
> see that there are 4 programmers amongst the top ten richest people in the
> world (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos) , a very
> large percentage. Science and Technology is in a sense the most
> egalitarian field in the world, because it involves using your brains and
> creativity. You don't need to have a father who is a director at Goldman
> Sachs or a mother who is the admissions officer at Harvard to succeed in
> this line.

Bill Gates III's father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was on the board
of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and United Way, and one of his
grandfathers was a national bank president. Gates himself went to Harvard.

Zuckerberg's paternal grandparents were successful middle class, described
as  being the first on the block to own a colour TV. (This was back in the
days when colour TVs were an expensive toy that few could afford.) His
parents were also very successful professionals: a dentist and a
psychiatrist. And he too went to Harvard. Despite the jeans and tee-shirts
Zuckerberg is known for wearing, he's firmly from the professional/upper
class.

Bezos comes from a family of land-holders from Texas. His grandfather was
regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and was financially
successful enough to retire at an early age. He didn't go to Harvard, but
he did go to Princeton.

Ellison is the son of an unwed mother who gave him up for adoption by her
aunt and uncle, comfortably middle-class. That makes him the closest out of
the group as a "regular guy".



-- 
Steven