age of Python programmers

[Aahz]

Re: age of Python programmers

In article <cg0mj5$pme$1@a tlantis.news.tp i.pl>,
Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda@gazeta. usun.pl> wrote:[color=blue]
>Aahz <aahz@pythoncra ft.com> pisze:
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>>>I'm also optimistic about retiring with Python, because *everyone* is
>>>going to retire with Python in 2044 :-).[/color]
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>> 2038[/color]
>
>2036[/color]

What's special about 2036?

(2038-1-19 is the 32-bit Unix date rollover point.)
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[richard]

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]

32, been using it for a decade.


Richard

[Lucas Raab]

Re: age of Python programmers

Pardon me while I run away from your cane!!

"Skip Montanaro" <skip@pobox.com > wrote in message
news:mailman.18 76.1092839779.5 135.python-list@python.org ...[color=blue]
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> Christopher> I'm 19. The only other Python programmer I know[/color]
personally[color=blue]
> Christopher> is 21. Congrats on discovering Python at 14; back then I
> Christopher> thought VB was a godsend. ;)
>
> Whippersnapper. .. At 14 I would have thought a computer was a godsend.[/color]
;-)[color=blue]
>
> (I'm 50, btw.)
>
> Skip[/color]

[Lucas Raab]

Re: age of Python programmers

Yeah, I did a non-closable window number on a friend on mine. Needless to
say he was quite annoyed.

"Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@ecritt ers.biz> wrote in message
news:2ohhqhFa1q gmU1@uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> Lucas Raab wrote:[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]
>
> 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.[/color]

[Lucas Raab]

Re: age of Python programmers

Quite a few of Python's community member's is 45+. That sort of surprised
me. But don't get the impression that I thought everybody here was in their
20's and 30's.

"Ville Vainio" <ville@spammers .com> wrote in message
news:du7wtzwfb8 b.fsf@lehtori.c c.tut.fi...[color=blue]
> 27 years, 4 of them with awareness of how much the other languages I
> have/had to work with suck.
>
> BTW, even though usenet might not really scale all that well for this
> kind of thread, it's been delightful to see how so many are still
> actively hacking at a respectable age. It really sets an example for
> us younger ones, some of whom are possibly worried about how to
> preserve the energy level of youth and whether they can still hack it
> when they "grow up".
>
> I'm also optimistic about retiring with Python, because *everyone* is
> going to retire with Python in 2044 :-).
>
> --
> Ville Vainio http://tinyurl.com/2prnb[/color]

[Lucas Raab]

Re: age of Python programmers

Somebody should set up a website with a poll-type thing to enter your age
and see other peoples ages.

"Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> wrote in message
news:jQHUc.1529 $2L3.505@newsre ad3.news.atl.ea rthlink.net...[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]

[Peter Hansen]

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Phil Frost wrote:
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> I never really thought programming was unpopular among young people, but
> now that I think about it, the only person I've met in real life that
> was a young programmer lives 1500km away, and we met on the internet, of
> course.[/color]

Most of the people with whom I went to grade school and high
school didn't know any programmers either. (And I was a programmer
at the time.)

There's a reason the stereotypical geek is considered antisocial...

-Peter

[Peter Hansen]

Re: age of Python programmers

Aahz wrote:
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> In article <4123874C.80003 04@chamonix.rep ortlab.co.uk>,
> Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> wrote:
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>>[...][/color]
> Not too many late-30s, I guess. I've been programming Python for six
> years, started at nine years old with BASIC.[/color]

Hi Aahz... I'll keep you company there.

Started with APL, technically, but didn't have a clue what I
was doing. Around eleven years old I think. Then BASIC etc.
Python for about five years, but greatly saddened it wasn't
for much longer (because of all the time wasted, especially
on Java and C++).

-Peter

[Marcos Eimil Pardo]

Re: age of Python programmers

28 years old, and getting more and more surprised with python, not only
a elegant, expressive, etc, etc. language, also useful as social life
maker ;D.

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]

[Daniel Harding]

Re: age of Python programmers

"Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> wrote in message news:<jQHUc.152 9$2L3.505@newsr ead3.news.atl.e arthlink.net>.. .[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]

25 here. Started programming at 13 with HyperCard on a Mac SE. Been
through many languages since then and though the bulk of my employment
is currently in C++, I use Python whenever I can for side projects and
personal programming ever since I started digging into it about a year
and a half ago.

[Rod Haper]

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]


Just turned 57 here and still coding strong although I've started to
think of birthdays not in terms of a count up but rather as a count down
towards retirement and freedom. I started programming back in 1966 on a
Burroughs B5500 using ALGOL 60. A truly wonderful machine and
programming language - far ahead of their time. I've always considered
myself lucky to have started with a block structured language like ALGOL
because of the good programming habits it engendered. I've worked with
a lot of machines, languages, code and applications since those heady
young days but for shear productivity nothing beats Python ... and
besides it's just plain fun to use. I've been using Python for over
eight years now.

--
Rod

[Robin Becker]

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Mark Jackson wrote:
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> Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> writes:
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>>Marius Bernklev wrote:[/color]
>
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>24. (anyone keeping count?)[/color][/color]
>
>[color=green]
>>It's raining so I can't go home[/color]
>
>[color=green]
>>Martin Jackson 55[/color]
>
>
> Unless there's an elderly Martin out there as well, this should be
> "Mark."
>[/color]
whoops

--
Robin Becker

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

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]
Well, I'm 37, but I may be some special case since I started programming
at 32... (well, I did some bits of scripting before that but nothing
serious, just a few lines of Hypertalk and VBScript...). So I'm not so
young, but still a young programmer !-)

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Re: age of Python programmers

Hi,

Age 30. Started programming at 15 on an Atari 520STe, using GFA Basic...
Been full time Python programmer for 4 years.

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[Peter Hickman]

Re: age of Python programmers

Berthold Höllmann wrote:[color=blue]
> Programming since more than 20 Years. UCSD Pascal on Apple //e and
> //c, FORTRAN, C, C++ and Python since more than 76 Years.[/color]

UCSD Pascal, ah that is a memory. The reason I never thought Java was such a big
deal was my exposure to UCSD, a whole OS as a VM (if my memory serves)!