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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 @08:58AM (#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.

Them as has, gets.

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