Paul Everitt, Guido van Rossum Panel Discussion PyCon 2017

"Speakers: Paul Everitt, Guido van Rossum
Panel Discussion
Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2017 and github.com/PyCon/2017-slides"

[@vcool]

The description doesn't say it, but this talk appears to be about some history of Python from the 1990s.

[@_elkd]

It is so amazing that the scientific community has been behind Python from the go. Johnson Space Center, Geological Survey, CNRI, I mean. Some folks be like oh it's the 2006-11 machine learning comeback.

[@_elkd]

I forgot NIST 😁

[@veronaswindall8777]

In Software Engineering now, you have to learn both C++ and Java. It's fine if you're already familiar with those languages, but the switch to Python (whenever that occurs) is the biggest feeling of joy you're likely to experience in programming. It's just so easy to get up and running with Python - and you''re not confined to searching for semi-colons! lol

[@davidascher]

ah, the memories ;-)