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Interview: David Ascher, Tech Lead for ActiveState 5

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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Interview: David Ascher, Tech Lead for ActiveState

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  • Learning Python (Score:5, Informative)

    by Big Sean O ( 317186 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @09:58AM (#4104025)
    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.

  • ... that the response will be much greater on the various newsgroups.

    Simple fact is, there wasn't anything in the interview worth discussing ...

    Except that Python is Good.

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