zephyrfalcon

Granted there isn't much to be gained by making your code look like an angry fruit salad. But I do find it useful in some cases, e.g. to make comments stand out from the rest of the code. Also, unterminated block comments or strings will immediately show up as well. And if you are not very familiar with a language, it might help to highlight keywords, so you don't accidentally use them as variable names.

It seems so. On Amazon I found Yoko Tsuno, Gomer Goof (English name of Gaston Lagaffe), Spirou & Fantasio, Valerian and Laureline. Personally I would like to add recommendations for stuff like Lucky Luke, Ekho and Blacksad.

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: sort of; I am willing to relocate to certain areas, esp. Jacksonville Beach or similar, provided some form of relocation assistance is available... Other areas in the US are currently not an option.

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, web development (esp. Flask), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Web development: mostly React. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work. I prefer a permanent position, but contracting is acceptable too.

SEEKING WORK | Gainesville, FL | remote/freelance

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am a very experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), desktop GUI development, database access (MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, REST APIs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, parsing, language implementation, games, etc.

I have a lot of experience with relational databases and SQL as well, especially MS SQL Server and Postgres. In fact, in all of my previous jobs I have used SQL, including designed database schemas, writing queries, measuring performance and optimizing queries, writing views and stored procedures, etc.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python), and for front-end development using React.

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Open source/personal projects: https://github.com/zephyrfalcon ; https://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon ; https://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

It appears to work without list comprehensions as well:

    Python 3.7.1 (default, Nov  6 2018, 18:49:54)
    Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
    IPython 7.1.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

    In [1]: lookup = {}

    In [2]: a, lookup[a] = 'xy'

    In [3]: a
    Out[3]: 'x'

    In [4]: lookup
    Out[4]: {'x': 'y'}

I wasn't previously aware that this was possible, but I guess it's no different from

    a = 'x'
    lookup[a] = 'y'  # i.e. lookup['x'] = y

SEEKING WORK | Gainesville, FL | remote/freelance

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am a very experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), desktop GUI development, database access (MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, REST APIs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, parsing, language implementation, games, etc.

I have a lot of experience with relational databases and SQL as well, especially MS SQL Server. In fact, in all of my previous jobs I have used SQL, including designed database schemas, writing queries, measuring performance and optimizing queries, writing views and stored procedures, etc.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python), and for front-end development using React.

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Open source/personal projects: https://github.com/zephyrfalcon ; https://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon ; https://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: sort of; I am willing to relocate to certain areas, esp. Jacksonville Beach or similar, provided some form of relocation assistance is available... Other areas in the US are currently not an option.

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, web development (esp. Flask), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Web development: mostly React. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work. I prefer a permanent position, but contracting is acceptable too.

That doesn't sound like it would make a lot of money though (as in, a living wage), unless you are highly successful...

ES6 has map, filter, reduce, etc... and anonymous functions which can be used in lieu of Ruby blocks.

When you look at the job postings in your browser, and do a simple string search for ".net" (so not a regex search), it doesn't show up all that often. E.g. if I look at this month's posts (4 pages), I see it 31 times. By contrast, Python shows up 251 times. I suspect the posts were searched with a regex like /.net/i without escaping the ".".

Over the years, I have found this article to be useful: http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm

> It doesn't matter how good your language is if nobody has heard of it.

Or how bad it is, if you can shove it down people's throats. But that is true for any software, not just programming languages...

The actual title is "Why Clojure? I’ll tell you why...", not the ungrammatical "Why I picked Clojure?"

The Miranda programming language: http://miranda.org.uk/

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes, or local to Gainesville

Willing to relocate: sort of; I am willing to relocate to certain areas, esp. Jacksonville Beach or similar, provided some form of relocation assistance is available... Other areas in the US are currently not an option.

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, some web programming (in progress), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Web development: mostly React. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work. If prefer a permanent position, but contracting is acceptable too.

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am a very experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, REST APIs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, parsing, language implementation, games, etc.

I have a lot of experience with relational databases and SQL as well, especially MS SQL Server. In fact, in all of my previous jobs I have used SQL, including designed database schemas, writing queries, measuring performance and optimizing queries, writing views and stored procedures, etc.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python), and for front-end development using React.

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Open source/personal projects: https://github.com/zephyrfalcon ; https://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon ; https://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

I'm thinking of using Red this year, although it might not be ready, depending on what kinds of problems come up. Otherwise it will "just" be Prolog again. :)

Yes, but the opposite happens too. There are plenty of people who believe that in technology, the latest is the greatest, and everything that came before that must have been inferior.

> above(X,Y) :- above(X,Z), on(Z,Y).

This line alone tells me I'm going to have infinite recursion. That would be a problem in any language, of course, and isn't particularly hard to spot here.

If "some shifty person introduces a problem", then that's bad news for any code base in any language. Nothing specific to Prolog.

> The big demonstration is that it's really rarely used in industry.

By that reasoning, software written in Javascript must be extremely reliable and easy to debug. >.>

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am a very experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, REST APIs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, parsing, language implementation, games, etc.

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python), and for front-end development using React.

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes, or local to Gainesville

Willing to relocate: sort of; I am willing to relocate to certain areas, esp. Jacksonville Beach or similar, provided some form of relocation assistance is available... Other areas in the US are currently not an option, for personal reasons. Unless you have an extremely tempting offer... ;-)

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, some web programming (in progress), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Web development: mostly React. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work. If prefer a permanent position, but contracting is acceptable too.

It did... it was compiled, and had some of the standard stuff that came with Borland's other Turbo* languages (like screen manipulation routines). Which came with a price... Turbo Prolog code is pretty much incompatible with any other Prolog version due to its use of static typing and Pascal-ish declaration sections for domains, predicates, clauses and goals.

For those who are interested, I think old manuals (and software) can be found on archive.org.

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes, or local to Gainesville

Willing to relocate: sort of; I am willing to relocate to certain areas, esp. Jacksonville Beach or similar, provided some form of relocation assistance is available... Other areas in the US are currently not an option, for personal reasons. Unless you have an extremely tempting offer... ;-)

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, some web programming (in progress), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work. If prefer a permanent position, but contracting is acceptable too.

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am a very experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, REST APIs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, parsing, language implementation, games, etc.

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python).

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

A few things come to mind... Installing it. Setting up a project. Learning the whole language. Reading other people's code. Understanding how things work behind the scenes. Less surprising code, in the sense that it does what you expect.

I would add, "finding a third-part library", but that was mostly because there were not as many. :) Then again the current glut of libraries is a bit of mixed blessing. I can look for a library that does X and find dozens of them. Very few of them will be mature or do what I want. But that has more to do with the ecosystem than with Python-the-language.

I don't think the number of tutorials matters, otherwise Haskell monads would be super easy to learn. ;-)

Python circa 2000 was a language that was easy to learn. [1] What you saw was basically what you got. Python in 2018... well... it has grown lots more features, which might not show up in tutorials but a beginner will see them as soon as they look at actual code. List comprehensions, generators, context managers, metaclasses, async/await, decorators, 2/3 split, ABCs, etc. Useful? Yes. Easy to learn or understand for a newbie? Maybe not so much.

Never mind that setting up an environment is no longer as easy as creating a 'lib' directory somewhere in $PYTHONPATH and unzipping files in there. Now we have many package managers, virtual environments, competing Python versions, you name it. Back in the day I started a Python "project" with a single file and worked from there, growing as necessary. Nowadays I see new projects with a dozen files and directories. Again, there are (presumably) reasons for all this, but easier it certainly is not.

[1] Although even then the "Programming Python" book was like 900 pages... http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921979.do

Location: Gainesville, FL

Remote: yes (although willing to consider local positions)

Willing to relocate: no (that is not an option for me at this moment, unfortunately)

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, unit testing, SQLAlchemy, ETL, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp, etc (always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for full-time or part-time work.

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am an experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), ORMs, scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, etc.

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python).

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am an experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, etc.

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done (perhaps on a regular basis), then I would love to hear from you.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python).

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com