wesley chun wrote:
> since 1997, i've been pretty much working full-time in Python:
> - at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++)
> - at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C)
> - at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex). we
> have a million lines in python (http://www.python.org/about/quotes/)
This is interesting to me in that all these jobs also involve C.
I'm not the original poster, but I'd be interested to hear about people
who make a living programming Python WITHOUT knowing C. I suppose this
may be considered insane, but, well you said it best yourself:
> char **x =
> (char**)malloc(...)... *x++ = (char*)malloc(...) ... free()...
> free()... (segmentation fault)... bus error... gdb... blah blah, led
> to thoughts such as, "i have better things to do with my time,"
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