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Monday, 26th January 2009

Coding Horror: A Scripter at Heart. Sigh. I cannot believe that the false distinction between “scripting” and “programming” is still being discussed.

# 6:06 pm / scripting, programming, ffs, flamewars, jeff-atwood

Dive into Python 3. Mark Pilgrim’s seminal work taught me Python nearly eight years ago. Now he’s updating it to cover Python 3. It’s just a table of contents at the moment, but the chapter on “Packaging Python libraries” has me very excited.

# 6:10 pm / python, python3, mark-pilgrim, diveintopython, packaging