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Wolfi Grafen

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Nickname: spalbird
Registered: Jun, 2006

Re: Looking for Memories of Python Old-Timers

Posted: Jun 7, 2006 6:01 AM

In 1996 funny enough it was Perl I didn't know at all which brought me to learning Python. Having bought a Perl O'Reilly book I realised after one week that it was about Perl 1.4 but not the new version Perl 1.5. I returned it to the book store and asked to order the new one. I looked around and discovered under another copy of that Perl book "Das Python Buch" published by Addison-Wesley. I browsed through it and fell immidiately in love with that language whose syntax looked much more familiary to me than the Unix script based language Perl. Fortunately it was easy to read and understand during the 10 minutes bus drives in the morning. No surprise I sticked with Python until today.

In the beginning I was promoting Python for our work. There was a strong opposition against Python - We use TCL and Perl but nobody uses Python - Most of our scripts are Perl - Python is inferior to Perl and so on. After I gave up and used Python only for my own problem solvings more and more people in other departments began programming in Python. I helped another collegue how to solve his communicating problems with an embedded controller. He restraining using Python years ago is now so enthusiastic that even his 10 year old son got "Python for Kids" as a Christmas present. His Python programs are also reaching some other departments of our company.

Just recently - Python hit our group!!! Our system administrator substituted his commercial family tree program with a Python equivalent. This was enough reason for him to learn Python. After some time he prefered writing our scripts in Python instead of Perl. Recently we rewrote one of his Perl programs relying heavily on external Unix commands completely in Python - cutting its execution time from tree minutes to five seconds. Recently working in a mixed Sun/Solaris and Intel/Redhat environment some of the old scripts show ugly errors which can be easily avoided with rewriting them in pure Python. Also my collegues ask our Sysop for help with their problems. He shows how to solve them in Python - and they are starting reading Python books as well.

In the end - 10 years after my Python promotion - Python is settling in our group. Collegues outside my group are using Python for years now - we are the last. It is not exactly a success story for me.

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