Don Knuth is my homeboy

Soon, I’ll even have the t-shirt to prove it.

I’ve been Reddit-ed!

Well, 500+ hits in one day, less than a week after starting this blog.  Who’da thunk it?

Why I won’t learn Perl (voluntarily)

In comp.lang.python, Perl is sometimes referred to as “that other P-language.”  Sometimes it seems as if people are afraid to speak its name.   In spite of the title, this post isn’t specifically going to be about Perl.  Rather, I’d like to talk a bit about programming languages in general, and, specifically, the characteristics of programming languages that I like.

print (“Hello, blog world!”)

Since this is my first post, I suppose I should introduce myself:

Hi, I’m thepythonista!

Okay, now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to cheat a bit and ask you, my faithful readers, what sort of cool things you’re doing or have done with Python, and what you might like to see me write about in the future. For my part, I have used Python to:

• Write test scripts for an in-house application at work.
• Analyze error log files for an online game I help maintain.
• Help format my resume.
• Write an online game.
• And lots of other stuff.

How about you? Post a comment telling me what you’ve done with Python, and maybe I’ll write a more in-depth post about it in the future!