Tristan Colgate writes: > To play the game a bit, I earned money writing guile, or rather, I wrote > guile to earn money. I wrote guile-snmp to manage several large networks. > guile-snmp was developed to run parts of the NHS.net network (I re-wrote > several tools back to perl net-snmp for the benefit of colleagues, but > tools were developed with guile-snmp first, far more quickly, and concisely > that I could have achieved otherwise). I used and extended it for a 5 or 6 > years and it became by far the best SNMP reporting tool I've ever used > (yes, I'm biased). I'm no longer in the network management business, and > SNMP has (unjustly) fallen out of favour, so sadly I don't really do much > with it any more.
This is really cool! > More importantly, I learnt an enormous amount about functional > programming, learned to really lovee lisp (and scheme, and guile). That > knowledge definitely made me a better programmer. It made me really "get" > various aspects javascript development that I'd have struggled with > otherwise. Got me interested in SML and haskell (the alternatives to the > cult of lambda). > > So my time with guile has, indirectly, gotten me plenty of jobs, even if > the people that hired me didn't know it. I don’t know how to put that, yet, but this isq a pretty strong quote. May I quote you on it? (though I’ll for starters only do that on GNU social and twitter, because it’s easiest there) I started using Guile to expand the limits of what I can do elegantly in programming, and I feel that that expanded what I can do — writing three witches¹ showed me where Programming could be and how much of what I once considered as how programming works was actually ceremony, even with Python — though Python still is the "rational" choice for many problems I face. Best wishes, Arne ¹: http://www.draketo.de/english/wisp/shakespeare -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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