Guido

[lost1]

I just met the guy who wrote f'ing Python. (The programming language, not the movie.)

Why?

Because he works in my office.

I swear sometimes it's surreal the type of people who work here.

Comments

[overbo]

You got me beat. The best I got is that one of my coworkers is cousins with the fellow who invented Perl.

[lost1]

Larry Wall?

That'd actually be pretty awesome to meet him. Not that I have anything interesting to say to him, or ask him, but all the same, it'd be kinda fun to say I've met the inventors of multiple programming languages.

[overbo]

Well now you can say you know someone who has talked with someone who is cousins with Larry Wall.

[lost1]

pheheheh. yes. I'm so l33t.

[davedash]

And Rasmus (PHP) works over at Y!

[lost1]

They should meet. And fight. Perhaps with water balloons.

[attickah]

Why water balloons, and not a good old-fashioned cardboard tube duel like you've been involved in?

[lost1]

Because I hadn't thought of that!

Cardboard tubes at dawn!

[internetsdave]

That's comedy. We're looking at a new ticketing software that is built on Python. I was, in fact, lamenting yesterday that it'll be a pain in the ass to customize because I don't know any Python what so ever.

[lost1]

My understanding is that it's one of the easiest/fastest languages to learn.

Though I've been slacking on actually learning it. Maybe I'll do that today.