Re: is laziness a programer's virtue?

2007-04-15 Thread Dan Bensen
Xah Lee wrote: > Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall > When the sorcerer Larry Wall said “The three chief virtues of a > programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris”, he used the word > “laziness” to loosely imply “natural disposition that results in being > economic”. Programming by definition is

Re: Jobs: Lisp and Python programmers wanted in the LA area

2007-02-26 Thread Dan Bensen
> Tech HR wrote: > easier to train a Java programmer or a Perler on Python than Lisp. Dan Bensen wrote: > Are your technical problems simple enough to be solved by Python > trainees? Aahz wrote: > If they're already good programmers, yes. Sure, but who are these good prog

Re: Jobs: Lisp and Python programmers wanted in the LA area

2007-02-26 Thread Dan Bensen
Tech HR wrote: > easier to train a Java programmer or a Perler on Python than Lisp. Are your technical problems simple enough to be solved by Python trainees? -- Dan www.prairienet.org/~dsb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list