Chapter 9. Barry Warsaw
Barry Warsaw is an American software engineer and a member of the Python Foundation team at LinkedIn. Barry worked for Canonical for 10 years, becoming an Ubuntu and Debian developer with responsibility for the Python ecosystem on those operating systems. He was the project leader of GNU Mailman, a popular open source mailing list manager written in Python. Barry's former roles include lead maintainer for Jython, Python release manager and member of PythonLabs. Today he is a core developer, the author of several successful Python Enhancement Proposals, and the maintainer of numerous Python libraries.
Discussion themes: PythonLabs, Python's future, v2.7/v3.x.
Catch up with Barry Warsaw here: @pumpichank
Mike Driscoll: How did you end up becoming a programmer?
Barry Warsaw: I started programming when I was pretty young. Computers then were actually Teletype machines, that were connected to mainframes in the school and the main school district...