Dutch Scientist Quotations

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Like most people, I am not smart enough that I can design software without having to restructure the software every now and then.

I think the real key to Python's platform independence is that it was conceived right from the start as only very loosely tied to Unix.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

Invariably, you'll find that if the language is any good, your users are going to take it to places where you never thought it would be taken.

Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents.