On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:39:13PM +, Nicholas Cole wrote:
> This email is inspired by a YouTube video of a talk that Jessica McKellar
Could you please share the link to the video please?
> recently gave. I was struck by her analysis that it is hard to remain a
> popular language (as Python
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
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> Even so, things like that are harder to create than they
> could be, or less prominently documented than one might have expected.
>
> Case in point: I have an application a friend/colleague of mine would like
> to look at. I've no i
On Monday, 6 January 2014, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Cole
> >
> wrote:
> > But what about the end-user? The end-user who just wants a blob (he
> doesn't
> > care about what language it is in - he just wants to solve the problem at
> > hand with your shiny,
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
> But what about the end-user? The end-user who just wants a blob (he doesn't
> care about what language it is in - he just wants to solve the problem at
> hand with your shiny, cool, problem-solving application).
This is where OS-provided pa
This email is inspired by a YouTube video of a talk that Jessica McKellar
recently gave. I was struck by her analysis that it is hard to remain a
popular language (as Python currently is) and her call to action to address
friction points that make it hard for a non-Python audience to use Python
an
