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Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, today announced that he has unretired and joined Microsoft’s Developer Division. "And now for something completely different"
Looking forward to Visual Python 
And even more: the reaction from the Python fans
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Holy good gravy.
SteelPython here we come, perhaps. 
Hang on, I did mention Python++ a few messages back. Or Python#?
I can't imagine the Python people will be happy about this.
** edit **
Oh, apparently he really is going to work on Python! I hope this lasts longer than Microsoft's culturing of PHP.
modified 12-Nov-20 14:39pm.
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markrlondon wrote: I hope this lasts longer than Microsoft's culturing of PHP.
I assume what happened here was that all the petri dishes got lurid colored spots all over them, and were than sterilized in an autoclave?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Something like that I imagine. The money was likely autoclaved, at any rate.
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We recap the Future of Desktop webinar, unpacking the latest in Windows Desktop development, developer preferences, tooling and Q&A. They've changed their minds again?
Flash everywhere! No, wait - TCL!
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This being Telerik, they have a handy component package for whatever the past, present or future of desktop looks like!
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Yeah, bit of a vested interest for them. I didn't notice any direct advertising of their stuff in the article (although I admit I didn't watch the video)
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft recommends using app-based authenticators and security keys instead. I think it's just they got tired of explaining the difference between SMS and SMS
Systems Management Server
Short Message Service
Storage Management System
System Managed Storage
and probably a few dozen more (just between Microsoft and IBM)
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Don't forget, System Management System!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Meanwhile, Microsoft Teams uses phone verification...
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Will Douglas Heaven November 12, 2020 MIT Technology Review [^]Quote: Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an AI that looked for signs of breast cancer in medical images. But according to its critics, the Google team provided so little information about its code and how it was tested that the study amounted to nothing more than a promotion of proprietary tech.
“We couldn’t take it anymore,” says Benjamin Haibe-Kains, the lead author of the response, who studies computational genomics at the University of Toronto. “It’s not about this study in particular—it’s a trend we’ve been witnessing for multiple years now that has started to really bother us.”
Just quit training on me !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus 2020 featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. I prefer GoSub
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Some interesting quotes about the evolution of C# there.
I must admit that I like many of the functional additions to C#.... but I always put them in a class. 
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 the content by Torgersen is very interesting. thanks, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I really should use LINQ, but I don't.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Also resurgence means it was popular before. "The Wishful Thinking of Functional Programming" doesn't sound as dramatic.
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Are you forgetting all those decades we toiled under the (highly functional, but glossy) boot of Haskell? Oh, those were the days...
TTFN - Kent
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Luxury! When I was a lad, we had to make do with LISP, and that was before it had ]!
modified 12-Nov-20 10:01am.
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In a quiet voice: I liked LISP.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Actually, so did I! But it's been a long time, and I'd have some serious brushing up to do.
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I learned LISP when I took a set of graduate courses in AI in the late 1980's. I ported a public domain LISP interpreter called XLISP written by David Betz for MS-DOS to the microVAX I administered at work using a (cough) constructively-acquisitioned (cough) C compiler for VAX/VMS. Back in the days when men were men, women were women, and 19.2K baud VT220 terminals were the cat's meow.
Good times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Are you telling me that men are no longer men, and that women are no longer women?! 
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Given that a person's appearance, how they refer to themselves, and their genetic identity can all refer to different, er, genders, things would seem to be rather fluid.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I tried to learn Lisp inbetween my studies, forty years ago, with little success. It was available on a VAX 780 (with an unbelievable 1 megabyte of RAM...) - but the VAX wasn't very available for hobbyists 
We had a 16-bit mini for hobbyist use. Some guy had made a Lisp interpreter for that CPU architecture around 1975, which we hoped to use. That failed miserably: In 1975, no one would dare to even drean about more than 32Ki words (64Ki bytes) of RAM - you would never need more than 15 address bits. In 1975, paging logic was an expensive option that very few could afford; an address was sent directly to the memory bus. With at most 32Ki words of physical RAM, the uppermost address line disappeared in thin air. So this guy got the idea to use this "wasted" bit in every pointer to hold a flag related to the pointer, rather than wasting another word to hold this flag.
In the early 80s, paging logic had become standard; it was no longer an option, and the OS depended on it. This "wasted" address bit was no longer wasted, so the flag in the Lisp interpreter was now interpreted as the most significant address bit. One of my fellow students were in contact with the guy, begging for "this small change", but was told that it was so deeply interwoven with the interpreter logic that changing it would require a complete rewrite, which was out of question.
We never got any Lisp interpreter on the hobby machine. Lisp wasn't that hot, so we didn't really push it that much.
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Call me a cynic - but I don't need developing software to be an experience or even a joyful experience, I just want it to be straightforward.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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