[Python] age of Python programmers

[Python] age of Python programmers

	Gerrit van Dyk
	Aug 19, 2004 at 11:03 am

I am 39 and has been programming fulltime in python for the last 6 years.
Prior to that I have been programming in Objective-C,C++ and C for a good
12 years.

Python rocks, and I wouldn't change it for anything else, except when
writing extensions in C

Gerrit

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Stefan Schukat: Just somewhere in the middle with 33 and doing Python for 6,5 years and loving it. Stefan

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Oliver Fromme: I'm 00100001b (or 021h ... or if you prefer decimal, it's 33 years). Although I feel more like 27, which is the age of my GF. :-) First learned to program in BASIC on an old Wang computer (with magnetic ring core memory, no "modern" RAM chips) and on a Commodore PET2001. I was 12 back then, I think. Then went through various other languages (including assembly on 65xx, 68xxx and x86), and I think that all of them suck, especially Perl and Java. As a matter of fact, I also think that Python
Ganesan R: Down a nudge with me :-). I am 32. Started with Basic on Spectrum 48K and a IBM PC Clone. Some Z80 assembly programming on the Spectrum. Then Fortran, Pascal and even (gasp!) COBOL. Moved on to C, C++ and Shell scripting. Found Perl along the way, was delighted with it. Did a bit of programming in Java. Dabbled occasionally in Tcl and recently C#. Found Python a couple of years back. Nowadays Python has mostly replaced Perl for my scripting needs, though I still fallback to plain old shell
Peter Maas: It took slightly more than a decade to get rid of 16bit machines. I don't think that anybody will use 32bit in more than 30 years. 64bit rollover point is in 292,277,026,596. That really ought to be enough for everybody :) Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Peter Maas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Maas, M+R Infosysteme, D-52070 Aachen, Tel +49-241-93878-0 E-mail 'cGV0ZXIubWFhc0BtcGx1c3IuZGU=\n'.decode('base64')

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