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.

Who else thought

[Anonymous Coward]

that someone was leaving zombo.com ?

I was sad

"Python is 'already quite secure,'"

[TheGreenLantern]

That sound you are hearing is a thousand hackers and script kiddies going "Oh yeah?" in unison.

Stay!

[blackmonday]

..known from several security tools such as Satan ..."I'll be working from the West coast".

Please, stay where you are, sir. We have enough problems out here already.

Who names this stuff?

[Laur]

We have the Yopy 3700 [slashdot.org] and now someone's leaving Zope.com. Has Disney been put in charge of naming things lately? Try the new Dopey 2003(C)!

I should read more carefully...

[H0NGK0NGPH00EY]

...I was rather confused for a moment how a story on zombo.com [zombo.com] would make /. front page.

and in other news

[British]

David Finkelstein has announced he is leaving McDonald's to work at Subway.

Elemental Security

[Call Me Black Cloud]

Great! I've been hoarding oxygen and have become increasingly concerned that my neighbors may try to liberate it. Damn free radicals.

Re:Guido's goodbye message

[jo42]

Oh, good, almost thought that Guido "The Killer Pimp" was leaving the business...whew!

Re:Prominently on python.org

[Randolpho]

Er.... I know python pretty well. Perhaps I should send my resume? :D

What we don't need in California ...

[Chromodromic]

... is yet another guy named "Guido" wanting everyone to admire his "Python".

SoCal is the land of double entendre and uber-image, Mr. Van Rossum. We don't care about your substance, we want to know about your style. So the question the really needs to be answered now is,

Python: Is It Sexy Enough? Join us on E! when we ask your favorite celebs just what scripting language they use for their daily information processing! We know Pamela Anderson loves Perl, and Carmen Daily is crazy about Java, but what happens when these two sexy stars get their hands on Python? Watch at 11 and find out!

My Network security...

[Lord_Slepnir]

known from several security tools such as Satan

I tried satan for my network security. Cost me my soul, but it's damn good. One kid tried to hack around our proxy to play games at work, and he got engulfed in flame and dragged down to the 3rd layer of hell for the rest of the day! Sure, I have to use a massive water cooling system to keep the firewall (and I mean a wall of fire that I run the ethernet cable through) from melting the other servers, but when the dark lord is watching your back, you don't even have to think twice about security.

Least ugly?

[Dr. Smeegee]

Looking at Guido's Home Page [python.org] I noticed that his picture shows a clean, healthy looking guy with all his hair.
I hereby cast my vote for Guido VanRossum for Least Ugly Open-Source Project Leader.

Emmental security?

[imAlive]

emmental [astradyne.co.uk] is a swiss cheese known for it's big holes.

Re:Least ugly?

[Dr. Smeegee]

Well, if Hedy Lamarr [harvard.edu] can invent spread-spectrum radio, I guess Pam Anderson can code. (VIP is rather wry on occaison...)

Re:Good times.

[Erich]

Fortunately, Python supports open and close braces to mark beginning and end of blocks. Just prefix them with a hash and use proper indentation. For instance:

def the_count(): #{

for i in range(0,10): #{

print "%d, %d, Ah, Ah, Ah!" % (i,i)

#}

#}

Tadaa! Curly braces. The code is now readable.

PS. Sorry for the odd indentation, I haven't posted code under slashdot for a while...