age of Python programmers

[Larry Bates]

I'll be 50 in October.

Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

 

[Robin Becker]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes

I doubt I'll bother to learn C#

 

[Paul McGuire]

45.

The gory details can be found at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wiki?PaulMcGuire

-- Paul

 

[wes weston]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

55. What a concept; built in lists, dictionaries, tuples, garbage collection,
OO, automatic typing.....

 

[P]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

30

 

[Roel Schroeven]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

29, but I don't know if I qualify for 'Python programmer'... I use C++
professionally, and use Python only for small scripts and for some small
simple hobby-projects.

 

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

I believe the average will be more than 25. Not many kids program these
days. I'm 32 btw.

 

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

Is this a marketing survey?

age: 31
marital status: married - have 1 wife
parental status: 2 children
canine status: have 1 dog
feline status: 1 cat
employment status: (very) thankfully have a (good) job
automobile status: 2 cars
sanity status: nearly none

You forgot to give us address and credit card details. Thanks in
advance for your reply.

 

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

Christopher> I'm 19. The only other Python programmer I know personally
Christopher> is 21. Congrats on discovering Python at 14; back then I
Christopher> thought VB was a godsend.
[skip]

Whippersnapper... At 14 I would have thought a computer was a godsend. ;-)

(I'm 50, btw.)

Perhaps when the timbot was 14, *everything* was godsent (or so the
Bible describes things

 

[Gary Herron]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

52 years old, programming for 35, programming Python for about 10.

Dr. Gary Herron

 

[Ksenia Marasanova]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a

Python programmer??

31

I use Python mostly for web development (with Quixote as a framework).
Pitty that can't use Python in Flash instead of Actionscript and as a
Javascript replacement ;-)

 

[Marius Bernklev]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

24. (anyone keeping count?)

 

[Thomas Heller]

57, used to build my own logic using gas discharge tubes

48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.

 

[Robin Becker]

48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.

yea I also did stuff with relays and strowger telephone switches, far more
exciting than billions of fet transistors simulating an electric fire

 

[Skip Montanaro]

Dave> Python fits my brain.

I agree. This gets my nod for QOTW.

Skip

 

[wes weston]

48, but my first logic was build using 24V relays.

Thomas,
I guess I did about 100 projects with 24v relays. This was
mostly in the oil and gas industry or emergency power.
wes

 

[Thomas Heller]

yea I also did stuff with relays and strowger telephone switches, far
more exciting than billions of fet transistors simulating an electric
fire

Maybe. My ring counter with 12 relays or so ran at a frequency of about
5 Hertz, after a week of drilling and soldering, nowadays I could desing
ring counters running at hundreds or maybe even thousends of MHz, use a
1.7 V supply, only by entering some VHDL code (*) at the computer,
compiling and downloading it to an FPGA.

But the FPGA doesn't make the same noise ;-)

(*) I have still to try Jan Decaluwe's (sp?) MyHDL to create the
ringcounter, or even more complicated things, with Python.

 

[Reid Nichol]

27

survey that might have this information with *real* numbers. Theres a
good little bump among the scientific and core-dev peoples for late
forties and above (maybe those careers keep you flexible enough to try
new things? Maybe the projects are experimental enough that using a
"new" language isn't a problem?)

The people who enter a carreer that involves science to any real degree
*must* mantain flexibility. They typically do research and nothing
would really get done if this weren't the case.

Since experimental math came along (very recent - I believe in just the
last few years) and since numerics is a large part of Physics now, it'd
make sense that the older ones would pick up an easy to learn language.
And since the GSL has python bindings, all the better.

 

[Robin Becker]

24. (anyone keeping count?)

It's raining so I can't go home


Gerrit Muller 47
Lucas Raab 14
OKB 20
Jeremy Jones 31
Ben Last 31
Guyon Moree 21
Tom Brown 31
Will McGugan 30
Christopher T King 19
Skip Montanero 50
Martin Jurczuk 26
Martin Jackson 55
Peter Wilkinson 32
oziko 24
Dave Opstad 50
Adonis 23
Peter Hickman 43
Axel Steiner 22
Larry Bates 49
Robin Becker 57
Thomas Heller 48
Paul McGuire 45
Wes Weston 55
P@draigBrady 30
Ian Sparks 34
Roel Schroeven 29
Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou 32
Garry Herron 52
Ksenia Marasanova 31
Robert Boyd 40
Marius Bernklev 24

Count 31
Average 35.32258065
Stddev 12.43754289

 

[Mark Jackson]

Marius Bernklev wrote:

It's raining so I can't go home

Martin Jackson 55

Unless there's an elderly Martin out there as well, this should be
"Mark."