The debate over programming languages often seems to take on a near religious quality -- now the proponents of the Python language may have some history on their side... It seems that PyGod is the oldest known god of homo sapiens...
Science Daily recently reported that Sheila Coulson of the University of Oslo has discovered the oldest known "ritual" site in a region of Botswana known as Ngamiland and inhabited by the San people. Apparently, this site was dedicated more than 70,000 years ago to worship of a Python God...
Now, we may finally know the language used by the "intelligent designer"...
I can't help wondering if this means that truly dedicated Python programmers will have to prove their worthiness by making at least one pilgrimage to the land of the San people in order to pay respects to the PyGod. Will this help Botswana tourism? Perhaps we'll see the San, as current custodians of the PyGod's den, adopted by the Python community as a focus of charitable giving... Bill Gates' efforts to help Africa, as far as those efforts effect the San, may have results he did not expect. Why code in C# when the PyGod clearly would prefer Python?
bob wyman
