John Salerno wrote: When I was pursuing a PhD, I was working on query optimization in object-oriented databases. My thesis was that you could actually do query optimization without breaking encapsulation, and I had several tricks that I knew how to use to do that. I needed a language in the DB that had static typing but no implication of shared structure (implementation or class). In my investigation for the work, I kept seeing references to Python, but (A) the white- space issue made me think it was silly, and (B) I needed a static typing for my work.
After graduate school, I returned to one of my hobby projects, a string search program, that I wanted to update to a more modern language. I ported the thing to C, but decided it was time to look at Python more closely, so I used it to experiment with some of my state machine building algorithms. By the end of the project, I had fallen in love with Python as both a programming language and a way of expressing algorithms to other programmers (who didn't necessarily know it was Python I was writing). --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
