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Jurjen Bos

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Re: Looking for Memories of Python Old-Timers Posted: May 23, 2006 1:15 AM
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My first time I used Python? Well that's about as long ago as the birth of Python itself.

I was a colleague of Guido and had done quite a bit of programming using Python's predecessor ABC: the programming language with the editor with too many features to be useful.
I did everything in ABC: I even generated addresses for my christmas cards with it!

Then, after the famous christmas holidays, Guido (who was my colleague at the time) said he made something better. I first didn't like the idea that I had to use an external editor to edit the files, but soon I realized that the Python way of thinking was so much better than the ABC way. I immediately switched, so I am proud to say that I actually used Python for virtually all my programming almost continuously for 16 years.

I did lots of little things. Most of my software is work related.
My most famous toy project is the "real numbers": a calculator that computes with infinite precision. (Yes, I should port it to 2.4. I know.)

- Jurjen

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