Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-08 Thread rusi
On May 8, 6:11 am, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On May 7, 2013 5:42 PM, "Neil Hodgson" wrote: > > jmfauth: > > >> 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, > >> (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) > >> ... > > >    This is not demonstrating non-compliance. It is com

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 07 May 2013 15:17:52 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote: > Good to see jmf finally comparing apples with apples :-) *groans* Truly the terrible pun that the terrible hijacking deserves. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 08/05/2013 01:34, Neil Hodgson wrote: jmfauth: 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) ... This is not demonstrating non-compliance. It is comparing performance, not compliance. Please show an example where Py

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/07/2013 09:11 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On May 7, 2013 5:42 PM, "Neil Hodgson" wrote: jmfauth: 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) ... This is not demonstrating non-compliance. It is comparing performan

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On May 7, 2013 5:42 PM, "Neil Hodgson" wrote: > > jmfauth: > >> 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, >> (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) >> ... > > >This is not demonstrating non-compliance. It is comparing performance, not compliance. > >Please sh

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Neil Hodgson
jmfauth: 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) ... This is not demonstrating non-compliance. It is comparing performance, not compliance. Please show an example where Python 3.3 is not compliant with Unicode.

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 7, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Martijn Lievaart wrote: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > >> There *are* programming languages worse than PHP. Have you ever tried >> britescript? > > Have you tried MUMPS? :-) > > M4 > Which one? The original MUMPS (Massachusetts General

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:32:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, jmfauth wrote: >> There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. There are also plenty >> of good reasons to not use (or now to drop) Python and to realize that >> if you wish to process text seriously,

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Chris Angelico於 2013年5月7日星期二UTC+8下午9時32分55秒寫道: > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, jmfauth wrote: > > > There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. There are > > > also plenty of good reasons to not use (or now to drop) > > > Python and to realize that if you wish to process text > > > seri

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Martijn Lievaart
On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > There *are* programming languages worse than PHP. Have you ever tried > britescript? Have you tried MUMPS? :-) M4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Terry Jan Reedy
On 5/7/2013 9:22 AM, jmfauth road forth on his dead hobbyhorse to hijack yet another thread: # Py 3.3 ascii and non ascii chars timeit.repeat("a = 'hundred'; 'x' in a") [0.11426985953005442, 0.10040049292649655, 0.09920834808588097] timeit.repeat("a = 'maçãé€ẞ'; 'é' in a") [0.23455951882567

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Simmons
"Fábio Santos" wrote: >> >> >> - >> >> >> 1) The memory gain for many of us (usually non ascii users) >> just become irrelevant. >> >> >>> sys.getsizeof('maçã') >> 41 >> >>> sys.getsizeof('abcd') >> 29 >> >> 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, >> (eg European languag

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Fábio Santos
> > > - > > > 1) The memory gain for many of us (usually non ascii users) > just become irrelevant. > > >>> sys.getsizeof('maçã') > 41 > >>> sys.getsizeof('abcd') > 29 > > 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant, > (eg European languages or "ascii" typographers !) > > >>> i

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, jmfauth wrote: > There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. There are > also plenty of good reasons to not use (or now to drop) > Python and to realize that if you wish to process text > seriously, you are better served by using "corporate > products" or tools

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread jmfauth
On 6 mai, 09:49, Fábio Santos wrote: > On 6 May 2013 08:34, "Chris Angelico" wrote: > > > Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to > > Steven for data points earlier than that), but with Python 3, there > > were two versions: one was 140 bytes representing 70 charact

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Ignoramus30465
On 2013-05-06, Henry Law wrote: > On 05/05/13 18:11, Ignoramus16992 wrote: >> According to CIO.com > > What an amusing thread; lightened my (non-programmer) day. > I guess you are from the python newsgroup then. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Joshua Landau
On 6 May 2013 13:03, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:30:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos > > wrote: > >>> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 > >>> characters wide. > >> > >> No! Was it not seventy characte

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:30:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos > wrote: >>> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 >>> characters wide. >> >> No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life? > > Well you see, it

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Fábio Santos wrote: > > And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 characters > wide. > > No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life? The entire moral code in a semi-tweet. How convenient. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Fábio Santos
All good points. I should probably blame the smallness of my company aswell. On 6 May 2013 09:11, "Chris Angelico" wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos > wrote: > > I may rise the average pay of a Python programmer in Portugal. I have > asked > > for a raise back in December, an

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos wrote: > I may rise the average pay of a Python programmer in Portugal. I have asked > for a raise back in December, and was told that it wouldn't happen before > this year. I have done well. I think I deserve better pay than a supermarket > employee no

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Karim
Le 06/05/2013 09:49, Fábio Santos a écrit : have asked for a raise back in December, and was told that it wouldn't happen before this year. I have done well. I think I deserve better pay than a supermarket employee now. I am sure that my efforts were appreciated and I will be rewarded. I am bei

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Fábio Santos
On 6 May 2013 08:55, "Karim" wrote: > > Austerity for python programmers in Portugal !? Actually, lack of a market. I can't seem to find any other job programming python. It's all php, VB, c#, and I think there is some COBOL in there too. But who knows. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. --

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Fábio Santos
On 6 May 2013 08:34, "Chris Angelico" wrote: > Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to > Steven for data points earlier than that), but with Python 3, there > were two versions: one was 140 bytes representing 70 characters, the > other 280 bytes representing 70 chara

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos wrote: >> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 characters >> wide. > > No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life? Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to Steven for data p

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Fábio Santos
> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 characters wide. No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread llanitedave
On Sunday, May 5, 2013 12:10:47 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Also, Perl programmers are an unprincipled, devious bunch, always looking > > for an opportunity to blackmail their employers into paying them extra. > > Python programmers are a decent, law-abiding people with a strong m

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Henry Law
On 05/05/13 18:11, Ignoramus16992 wrote: According to CIO.com What an amusing thread; lightened my (non-programmer) day. -- Henry LawManchester, England -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Ignoramus16992
On 2013-05-05, Paul Rubin wrote: > Paul Rubin writes: >> I see "New York" listed as a location for Perl but not for Python. > > Whaat? It's there for Python, though in the #3 position rather than #2. > I must have flipped through the slides too fast. My website algebra.com is written in perl, i

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: >> Now you got me badly worried, using both Perl and Python (and >> other, unspeakable languages, but not VB I promise!) Will I >> end up as a Python hacker for the mob or worse > > https://en.w

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith declaimed > the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > In article <5186af75$0$29997$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > > > Right now, I'd consider learning PHP fo

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Jens Thoms Toerring
In comp.lang.python Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote: > > Well, that didn't have a happy ending:-( Should have listened to > > my parents when they told me again and again "Never use Perl, just > > say no!". Seems I'm doomed - what's the proper way t

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article , j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) wrote: > Well, that didn't have a happy ending:-( Should have listened to > my parents when they told me again and again "Never use Perl, just > say no!". Seems I'm doomed - what's the proper way to apply for a > job with the mob? I don't think

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Steven D'Aprano於 2013年5月6日星期一UTC+8上午3時10分47秒寫道: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 12:11:11 -0500, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > > > > > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > > > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > > > > > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Jens Thoms Toerring
In comp.lang.python Rainer Weikusat wrote: > j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: > > In comp.lang.python Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > >> On Sun, 05 May 2013 12:11:11 -0500, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > > > >> > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > >> > whi

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Paul Rubin writes: > I see "New York" listed as a location for Perl but not for Python. Whaat? It's there for Python, though in the #3 position rather than #2. I must have flipped through the slides too fast. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Ignoramus16992 writes: > I would like to know, what explains the discrepancy. I see "New York" listed as a location for Perl but not for Python. That implies: 1) some general skew because of the very high cost of living in NY (even compared to San Francisco or Silicon Valley); 2) further skew b

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Rainer Weikusat
j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: > In comp.lang.python Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> On Sun, 05 May 2013 12:11:11 -0500, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > >> > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, >> > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. >> > >> > http

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article <5186af75$0$29997$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Right now, I'd consider learning PHP for an extra $100 a month. Or > peddling my arse down at the docks for twenty cents a time, which will be > less embarrassing and much less painful. Having spent th

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On May 5, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 13:58:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > >> In article , >> Ignoramus16992 wrote: >> >>> According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, >>> while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. >> >> It's amazi

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Jens Thoms Toerring
In comp.lang.python Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 12:11:11 -0500, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > > > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#sl

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 05 May 2013 13:58:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Ignoramus16992 wrote: > >> According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, >> while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > It's amazing the depths to which people are willing to sink for an extra >

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 05 May 2013 12:11:11 -0500, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10 > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?sourc

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/05/2013 18:35, rusi wrote: On May 5, 10:11 pm, Ignoramus16992 wrote: According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. It's amazing the depths to which people are willing to sink for an extra $10k per year. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Fábio Santos
> Most likely more legacy Perl code in mission critical systems Which is unfair because when Python is ever surpassed by an even better language/technology then we get paid more to work Python and not move the industry forward by moving to the new technology and hacking on it. -- Fábio Santos --

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread rusi
On May 5, 10:11 pm, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide11

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10 > http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifw

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
And seniority combined with annual cost of living raises, due to Perl being in use longer S Sent from my pocket UNIVAC. On May 5, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. >

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Fábio Santos
I wouldn't touch perl code with a ten foot pole. On the other hand, python is pleasing to the eye and easy to write, read and modify. This means that you can easily be replaced with someone else who also knows python, so your company doesn't care much about paying you well and keeping you there.

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
Most likely more legacy Perl code in mission critical systems S Sent from my pocket UNIVAC. On May 5, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Ignoramus16992 wrote: > According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, > while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. > > http://www.cio.com/slides

Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-05 Thread Ignoramus16992
According to CIO.com, Python programmers make only $83,000 per year, while Perl programmers make $93,000 per year. http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide10 http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/97819?source=ifwartcio#slide11 I would like to know, what explains the discrep