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Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison (Ep 21 Replay)

Django Chat

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The Altruistic Argument That Drove Me to Switch to Python

The Django template system comes from me having done compilers 101 at university. I had not yet done compilers 102. It was very much a sort of loose sort of Lexa and interpreter kind of thing that was going on. But, um, one of the things I learned working on Django is people who have computer science degrees often say, you know, I don't use that stuff very often. And it was also just interesting seeing that explosion of interest in Django and all of the contributions and the creativity that came out of that.

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