[pypy-sprint] intro

[Günter Jantzen]

> Hello PyPy sprinters,
>
> almost everybody seems to be settled regarding accomodation
> and arrival times. Except for Alex Martelli and the other
> people subscribed to the pypy-sprint list but not on the wiki page
>
>     http://codespeak.net/moin/pypy/moin.cgi/SprintAttendants
>
> Now i wonder if the "new" people would introduce themselves,
> their background and their current interest in PyPy.
> I've put the "intros" of the people that attended
> the HildesheimSprint on the above page. All others are
> welcome to reply to this posting (you are reading).
>
>


Hello Holger,

thank you for your care | interest | investigation. So I will break my
incognito ;-)

I will arrive at Louvain-la-Neuve in Friday evening and stay till Tuesday.

I studied mathematics in Hamburg. Connected with my diploma paper (~master
thesis) in group theory I wrote Pascal-programms.
Since 1995 I am working as an application programmer. (C++, PL/SQL, Java,
Python).

>From my time at University I still have two left hands and my interest in
*what is puzzling*. I dont understand fast. Sometimes I miss the scientific
community and their style of having all time of the world. In programming I
like to work with notions, language, definitions. I like to understand other
programmers intentions, I like reingeneering and refactoring and creating
something new.

My work as a consultant at T-Mobile is connected with test-automatization.
Last year I started to work with Python. I was surprised when I took some
diff stuff for regression tests from the Python Library. It was so ugly slow
compared with a system call of gnu diff. I supposed that people dont like to
write C-extensions because they are so uncomfortable unpythonic. And at
Europython I came to the conclusion, that Python needs "another host
language". It was exciting for me to discuss this questions with Guido and
later in the Restaurant with you, Christian and Gerd Woetzel. I remember
that Armin Rigo answered on my question: No, not another language, we should
rewrite Python in Python...

So lets sprint in Python and Rpython :-)

Günter