[Inpycon] Zed won't be able to make it.

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2011/5/5 Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>:
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I just got an email from Zed today. He won't be able to make it for the
> >>> conference due to his day job.
> >>>
> >>> I'll keep the list posted on developments.
> >>
> >> I just got a reply from Steve Holden saying that he won't be able to
> >> come down because of a clash with Djangocon that HoldenWeb conducts.
> >> Any other suggestions?
> >
> > How about David Beazley?
>
> [...]
>
> He's a good speaker and hardcore hacker so a good option.
>
> One other option that comes to mind is Raymond Hettinger (who I haven't
> really spoken to but don't mind mailing anyway).
>

+1. Never met this guy, but considering the quality of his code and his
original contributions to Python std library, he is always on the top of my
mind...

For the uninitiated, Raymond brought us generator expressions,
most of the "collections" module (named tuple, ordered dict etc)
and if I am not mistaken a good part of the itertools module.

--Anand



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