age of Python programmers

[Ksenia Marasanova]

Re: age of Python programmers

> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a[color=blue]
> Python programmer??[/color]

31

I use Python mostly for web development (with Quixote as a framework).
Pitty that can't use Python in Flash instead of Actionscript and as a
Javascript replacement ;-)

[Marius Bernklev]

Re: age of Python programmers

"Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> writes:
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> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
> Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
> about....[/color]

24. (anyone keeping count?)


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[Thomas Heller]

Re: age of Python programmers

Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
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> Lucas Raab wrote:
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>> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>> Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
>> about....
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> 57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes :)[/color]

48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.

[Robin Becker]

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Thomas Heller wrote:
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> Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
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>>Lucas Raab wrote:
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>>>One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>>>Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
>>>about....
>>>[/color]
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>>57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes :)[/color]
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> 48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.[/color]

yea I also did stuff with relays and strowger telephone switches, far more
exciting than billions of fet transistors simulating an electric fire :)

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Robin Becker

[Skip Montanaro]

Re: age of Python programmers


Dave> Python fits my brain.

I agree. This gets my nod for QOTW.

Skip

[wes weston]

Re: age of Python programmers

Thomas Heller wrote:[color=blue]
> Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
>
>[color=green]
>>Lucas Raab wrote:
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>>>One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>>>Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
>>>about....
>>>[/color]
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>>57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes :)[/color]
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> 48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.[/color]

Thomas,
I guess I did about 100 projects with 24v relays. This was
mostly in the oil and gas industry or emergency power.
wes

[Thomas Heller]

Re: age of Python programmers

Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
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> Thomas Heller wrote:
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>> Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
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>>>Lucas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>>>>Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
>>>>about....
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>>>57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes :)[/color]
>> 48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.[/color]
>
> yea I also did stuff with relays and strowger telephone switches, far
> more exciting than billions of fet transistors simulating an electric
> fire :)[/color]

Maybe. My ring counter with 12 relays or so ran at a frequency of about
5 Hertz, after a week of drilling and soldering, nowadays I could desing
ring counters running at hundreds or maybe even thousends of MHz, use a
1.7 V supply, only by entering some VHDL code (*) at the computer,
compiling and downloading it to an FPGA.

But the FPGA doesn't make the same noise ;-)

(*) I have still to try Jan Decaluwe's (sp?) MyHDL to create the
ringcounter, or even more complicated things, with Python.

[Reid Nichol]

Re: age of Python programmers

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Mike C. Fletcher wrote:[color=blue]
> survey that might have this information with *real* numbers. Theres a
> good little bump among the scientific and core-dev peoples for late
> forties and above (maybe those careers keep you flexible enough to try
> new things? Maybe the projects are experimental enough that using a
> "new" language isn't a problem?)[/color]
The people who enter a carreer that involves science to any real degree
*must* mantain flexibility. They typically do research and nothing
would really get done if this weren't the case.

Since experimental math came along (very recent - I believe in just the
last few years) and since numerics is a large part of Physics now, it'd
make sense that the older ones would pick up an easy to learn language.
And since the GSL has python bindings, all the better.

[Robin Becker]

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Marius Bernklev wrote:
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> "Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> writes:
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>>One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>>Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
>>about....[/color]
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> 24. (anyone keeping count?)
>[/color]
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>[/color]
It's raining so I can't go home


Gerrit Muller 47
Lucas Raab 14
OKB 20
Jeremy Jones 31
Ben Last 31
Guyon Moree 21
Tom Brown 31
Will McGugan 30
Christopher T King 19
Skip Montanero 50
Martin Jurczuk 26
Martin Jackson 55
Peter Wilkinson 32
oziko 24
Dave Opstad 50
Adonis 23
Peter Hickman 43
Axel Steiner 22
Larry Bates 49
Robin Becker 57
Thomas Heller 48
Paul McGuire 45
Wes Weston 55
P@draigBrady 30
Ian Sparks 34
Roel Schroeven 29
Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou 32
Garry Herron 52
Ksenia Marasanova 31
Robert Boyd 40
Marius Bernklev 24

Count 31
Average 35.32258065
Stddev 12.43754289


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[Mark Jackson]

Re: age of Python programmers

Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:[color=blue]
> Marius Bernklev wrote:[/color]
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> > 24. (anyone keeping count?)[/color][/color]
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> It's raining so I can't go home[/color]
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> Martin Jackson 55[/color]

Unless there's an elderly Martin out there as well, this should be
"Mark."

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is the merger of state and corporate power.
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[Fred Pacquier]

Re: age of Python programmers

Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> said :
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> It's raining so I can't go home[/color]

One more datapoint (it's raining here too) : 44 (next week :-)

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[Leif K-Brooks]

Re: age of Python programmers

Lucas Raab wrote:[color=blue]
> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
> Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
> about....[/color]

I'm 13, I'll be 14 in 89 days. I started doing somewhat real programming
at around 11; I had done silly things in a VB-like language for Mac OS
before then, mostly "viruses" that displayed a full-screen window with
no close button, but hadn't written any code.

[Egbert Bouwman]

Re: age of Python programmers

67. My impression is that it easier to learn python when you are younger.
egbert
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[Harry George]

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mjackson@alumni .caltech.edu (Mark Jackson) writes:
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> "Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> writes:[color=green]
> > One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
> > Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
> > about....[/color]
>
> 55. Wrote my first program at 16 (Fortran, punch cards).
>
> --
> Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
> Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it
> is the merger of state and corporate power.
> - Benito Mussolini
>
>[/color]

Finally, someone in my cohort :-). 52. Also wrote first program at
16, FORTRAN, on punch cards. Many, many languages later found python
and bliss. In the middle of a world of meetings, project planning,
and other project managering a few hours coding restores a sense of
hope.

(BTW, nice signature quote. See http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/ for
related materials.)

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Phone: (425) 342-0007

[Peter Maas]

Re: age of Python programmers

Lucas Raab wrote:[color=blue]
> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
> Python programmer??[/color]

48.16

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