{"id":21,"date":"2008-02-01T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-02-06T19:50:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T03:50:36","slug":"dammit-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Dammit, CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been without a programming language at home for too long.  I have, in the past, used bash scripting, perl, php and (only at work!) VBA.  I&#8217;m sure that at some point soon I&#8217;ll be needing a language again.  By the time I really, really need it, it will be too late to quickly pick it up again, so this time I&#8217;m going to be ready.<\/p>\n<p>Python, I choose you.<\/p>\n<p>This paragraph originally started with &#8220;two reasons for Python,&#8221; which became three.  Then, as I was about to amend it to four before I&#8217;d even typed the first reason, I realized that I was quickly getting into Spanish Inquisition territory.  Therefore, <em>amongst the reasons for my choice of Python are such diverse elements as<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open-source<\/li>\n<li>extremely portable<\/li>\n<li>CNN recommends it (not the news network)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/353\/\">XKCD<\/a> (of course)<\/li>\n<li> fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there we go.  While I&#8217;ve been typing this, Python has been downloading and installing.  It&#8217;s now downloaded and installed.  Off I go.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.  One last thing before I go.  I hadn&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/378\/\">today&#8217;s XKCD<\/a> when I chose today for my programmer&#8217;s renaissance, but it just tells me that I&#8217;m making the right choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been without a programming language at home for too long. I have, in the past, used bash scripting, perl, php and (only at work!) VBA. I&#8217;m sure that at some point soon I&#8217;ll be needing a language again. By the time I really, really need it, it will be too late to quickly pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-serious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}