age of Python programmers

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

Re: age of Python programmers


"Reinhold Birkenfeld" <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam@wolke7.n et> wrote in
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> I certainly wouldn't call these shockingly horrible bunches of IE-tags
> thrown together with the intention of being regarded as "cool" a[/color]
"website".

They are retro-sites; just like 70's apparel became fashion again, so will
those sites!!

My 10 year-old daughter should have a future well set out in web design
given her liking of Purple backgrounds enriched with Pink, Yellow and Green
text - sometimes adorned with the "Blink" attribute!

muahahahahahhaa a

[Robin Becker]

Re: age of Python programmers

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]
so far with a count of 74 the average is 35.72
--
Robin Becker

[Andrew Durdin]

Re: age of Python programmers

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:26:36 +0100, Robin Becker <robin@reportla b.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> so far with a count of 74 the average is 35.72[/color]

Well, let me lower that just a tad: I'm 24.

[Max M]

Re: age of Python programmers

Robin Becker wrote:
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> 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]
> so far with a count of 74 the average is 35.72[/color]

Up that a nudge with me: 39

regards Max M

[Oliver Fromme]

Re: age of Python programmers

Lucas Raab <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> 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 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 sucks, but it
sucks a lot less than all the others.

Regards
Oliver

--
Oliver Fromme, Konrad-Celtis-Str. 72, 81369 Munich, Germany

``All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream.''
(E. A. Poe)

[Peter Maas]

Re: age of Python programmers

Aahz schrieb:[color=blue]
> Ville Vainio <ville@spammers .com> wrote:
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>>I'm also optimistic about retiring with Python, because *everyone* is
>>going to retire with Python in 2044 :-).[/color]
>
>
> 2038[/color]

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

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[Nicolas Évrard]

Re: age of Python programmers

* Oliver Fromme [13:32 19/08/04 CEST]:[color=blue]
>Lucas Raab <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> 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 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. :-)[/color]

Well if everybody feels like the age of his GF/BF, I'm 75 although I'm
only 27.

--
(°> Nicolas Évrard
/ ) Liège - Belgique
^^

[Ganesan R]

Re: age of Python programmers

>>>>> "Max" == Max M <maxm@mxm.dk> writes:
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> Robin Becker wrote:[color=green]
>> Lucas Raab wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> 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]
>> so far with a count of 74 the average is 35.72[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Up that a nudge with me: 39[/color]

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 scripting occasionally.


Ganesan

[vronskij@post.sk]

Re: age of Python programmers

I am 25. 2 years flirting with Python. Started programming when I was
about
8 years old. Basic and Assemblear. High school Pascal. University C.
Now C++ and Python.

Teenage programmers fading away. I think that you are at the height of
your skills in 30's.



jan bodnar

[Stephen Ferg]

Re: age of Python programmers

> Finally, someone in my cohort :-). 52.

I'm 58.

Started programming in 1979 -- 25 years ago. Cut my teeth on Pl/I.
Later COBOL, Pascal, Basic, Java. For a while I liked REXX very much,
but it just ran out of steam.

Been programming in Python for about 4 years.

Perhaps we have a two-hump demographic: youngsters in teens and
twenties, and old farts in 50's.

[Alan Kennedy]

Re: age of Python programmers

[vronskij@post.s k][color=blue]
> Teenage programmers fading away. I think that you are at the height of
> your skills in 30's.[/color]

I'm 37. Does that mean I'm (in my) prime?

can't-resist-cheesy-puns-ly y'rs,

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[Richard Hanson]

Re: age of Python programmers

Lucas Raab wrote:
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> [...] what is the average age of a Python programmer?? [...][/color]

Datapoint: 53

I'm fifty-three-years-old. Started programming in 1968 on IBM
mainframes using FORTRAN IV -- and now I'm here, retired, and
hanging out in this Python newsgroup...

but-it-seems-like-*so*-many-more-years'ly y'rs,
Richard

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[Duncan Booth]

Re: age of Python programmers

"Lucas Raab" <pythongnome@ho tmail.com> wrote in
news:jQHUc.1529 $2L3.505@newsre ad3.news.atl.ea rthlink.net:
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> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
> Python programmer??[/color]

My average age is 21. My actual age is rather more.

[Richard Hanson]

Re: age of Python programmers

Peter Hansen wrote:
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>Lucas Raab wrote:[color=green]
>> One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
>> Python programmer??[/color]
>
>My average age has been increasing steadily for years. :-([/color]

:-)

(And ditto on the ':-('.)

While I agree with Peter -- and particularly, his ending emoticon
on *all* levels, I have to ask:

-- Was the OP asking about my age in *human* years... -- or
*Richard* years?

(One Richard year approximately equals *two* human years...)

;-)

over-a-century-in-"Richard"-years'ly y'rs,
Richard

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[Richard Hanson]

Re: age of Python programmers

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
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>It's so much more efficient to just make up the statistics.[/color]

Not *that's* a quote!

:-)

thread-enjoyingly y'rs,
Richard

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R Hanson [The mangled email addie below works.]
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