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Interview: David Ascher, Tech Lead for ActiveState

Posted by michael on from the squeezing-the-competition dept.

Grok writes "You may have heard about a company named ActiveState before. Maybe you're a Perl programmer and have used ActivePerl, ActivePython or some of their other various programming-related tools. Well, today MozillaNews has an interview with David Ascher, a senior programmer at ActiveState, and the tech lead for Komodo, the cross-platform, multi-language IDE based on Mozilla."

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  1. Learning Python by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 5, Informative

    David Ascher is a co-author of Learning Python. It is one of the better (and one of the first) Python books out there. He has also co-edited O'Reilly's Python Cookbook which evolved from the Active State website.

    I recently read that a new version of Learning Python is in the works, and I have to say that it's time. Learning Python is one of my favorite (read: more useful) books and Python has come a long way since version 1.5.

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    My father is a blogger.