On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >[..] > > The fact is that real good hackers don't care about the language they > use, > > but in the quality of the code they write in that language. [..] > > A good hacker given a choice of languages would select one of them for > his use. I don't think they're language agnostic. In fact, they're > probably more rabid about their choice of languages than your average > code monkey. > I was having someone like Bruce Perens in mind when I posted it. And anyway all good Python hackers are good C programmers too since most of them contribute to the underlying implementation which is in C. I have observed that language fanaticism is not seen very much in the Python world. Experienced Pythonistas seem to be better language cosmopolitans. This is not meant as a troll or flame, but something which I have felt in many years of working with Python and the community. > > I do get your point though that a hackers code would be good > regardless of what language he wrote it in. > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand
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