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Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com
VladDrac writes "Guido van Rossum, the author of the Python programming language, announced at OSCON last night that he's leaving zope.com, to work for a new startup called 'Elemental Security', founded by Dan Farmer (known from several security tools such as Satan). Guido leaving Zope.com will also probably mean that he will be no longer involved in Zope3 development, but hopefully he'll have more time to spend on Python development." Guido says that he's excited about his new employer, but that nothing substantial will change about Python as a result of the move. "It's just that I'll be working from the West coast." Python is "already quite secure," he says, and will be the basis of an upcoming security product ("just getting started") from Elemental.
Hopefully the job change will allow him to concentrate a bit more on python, its a great language that we in the lab are using to replace all our old apps that were written in VB and java.
One thing I would like to see would be python to become even more object oriented which would give it greater flexibility and would mean that the code would not be so long (our Vb code is about 2-3x shorter than the python code). Perhaps they could do this by borrowing a few tips from perl, which although slower has code that looks much neater.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
You have got to be kidding...
Python is *SO* much easier to read than perl.
Neither python or perl are strongly typed, dumbass.