The sudden news that Guido Van Rossum quit being the BDFL came as a shock in the python community. Apparently, the reason was a debate and a lot of negative feelings expressed over: PEP 572 — Assignment Expressions. As Guido writes: “I don’t ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.” Read more about it here: https://hub.packtpub.com/why-guido-van-rossum-quit/
I consider certifications as the ultimate learning tools. That is quite frankly all. A learning experience that gives you skills, understanding, knowledge, but not entitlement or guarantees. Well, the above is not a factual statement, it’s an expression of attitude. In it, I consciously choose to be empirically incorrect – even wrong (I will explain how in a short while) – while focusing, laser-sharp, on the thing that is important. It is an attitudinal heuristic or a value judgement, if you will. And in this…Continue Reading “On: Certifications. In IT and in general”