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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:48:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Getting involved
From: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
To: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Sophie Sperner <sophie.sperner <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Let me ask here please. I'm a first-year PhD student in Ireland. My
>> background is in mathematics, though I'm going to stream my career
>> into programming with Python, Java and C++ languages. I have some good
>> experience with C++ what allowed me to have a presentation in Europe
>> quite recently - I participated in an open-source cloud computing
>> project. I used Python a little bit in that project, though mainly it
>> was in C++.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Could you please list me 2 or 3 projects in Python and/or Java which
>> are currently active (vivid) and useful?
>
> CPython itself - the reference and most used implementation - is written partly
> in Python (most of the stdlib is) and partly in C. It is easy to find things to
> do even without touching C. You could take a look:
> http://docs.python.org/devguide/

+1

>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
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