Some pseudo-relevant links

[David Glass]

Thanks to Greg for organizing tonight's meeting and providing refreshment.

Some Paul Graham links:

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html (The Python Paradox)
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (Beating the Averages)
http://news.ycombinator.com (Hacker News)

Some others:

http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ (PLY - Python Lex-Yacc)
http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm (Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python)
http://pypy.org/ (Python implemented in Python)
http://www.jython.org/ (Python implemented in Java)
http://ironpython.net/ (Python implemented on .Net)

[Greg Saunders]

> and providing refreshment

I've never mentioned before that the first 6 through the door enjoy a "beverage" on the house ... maybe now that it's out ... attendance will increase :-) ... hmmm ... do tell, what comes in sixes?

Thanks for your input tonight ... good to have you come by. I "get" decorators now :-)

Ciao

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[Greg Saunders]

David, I thought Paul's Python Paradox article spot on.

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

I'm a developer by accident and use python out of laziness (the path of least resistance) ... looks pretty, easy to learn, easy to read, batteries included, free ... and could never figure out why the language isn't more mainstream.

Maybe it's better that way. Paul's probably right; programmers don't come to python to get a job. Those who want a job will go the Java, C, C++ route. You don't really want those guys working on your project anyway. Those who love to program will find python (or Smalltalk :-)

Ciao,

Greg

On 10 June 2010 22:36, David Glass <david...@gmail.com> wrote: