Statistics folks, data science peeps. Just needing to get things done, and not necessarily interested in--or aware of--programming ergonomics (for example).
> LARP
Personalities, like a Carmack. People we refer to just by name, due to technical agility, charisma, or sheer output.
I liked _why's stuff. The way he left is not how I would expect a persona to depart. There were some shifts in the programming landscape, and it led to a kind of forlorn sadness or mourning.
If I had to list others, Chris Crawford and Mark Pilgrim.
> Seems people just about... what's needed for language to flourish
Folks needing to munge data from CSV or Excel found python (and R, and other data libs) earlier, or more convenient to use; this built momentum as others tried Python instead.
Maybe also academia, python was there so it was taught. Another example could be students learned UNIX and brought it to their jobs. Same with Java.
Statistics folks, data science peeps. Just needing to get things done, and not necessarily interested in--or aware of--programming ergonomics (for example).
> LARP
Personalities, like a Carmack. People we refer to just by name, due to technical agility, charisma, or sheer output.
I liked _why's stuff. The way he left is not how I would expect a persona to depart. There were some shifts in the programming landscape, and it led to a kind of forlorn sadness or mourning.
If I had to list others, Chris Crawford and Mark Pilgrim.
> Seems people just about... what's needed for language to flourish
Folks needing to munge data from CSV or Excel found python (and R, and other data libs) earlier, or more convenient to use; this built momentum as others tried Python instead.
Maybe also academia, python was there so it was taught. Another example could be students learned UNIX and brought it to their jobs. Same with Java.