From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arne Babenhauserheide Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How do you earn money with Guile? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:05:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87y45662r3.fsf@web.de> References: <87h9dali3f.fsf@web.de> <20160603125732.4f4f1d7d@dissentio> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468353987 3837 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2016 20:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Tristan Colgate Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 22:06:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bN3wf-0005Pe-8Y for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:06:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN3we-0004uA-Ft for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN3wJ-0004u1-RA for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN3wI-0006B1-Gw for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:63026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN3wI-0006AY-6L for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fluss ([85.212.6.74]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LqoAk-1asyF32Yjq-00eJ75; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:05:43 +0200 User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.1 In-reply-to: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:6cwwombUTSSzjzwsYfoqvUA1cUZ18y9U5HqDWM5w0LclFPdgSXI 0qLfANWzf0YHnvnGHXpKAVjOGJ/lkzHSFzbybg2etSkv9R0nEMfPIYPu0NO2K/D7wOI9t4H IXBbcYJvZql/Ab5Fes8D1FjFJX3qaUv2MZLw6T9byeO+Eg0MRkmtKKloAKb2eXEZnjBqfUj OB7lI7bgdW3PxxbhAIi2g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:X/xDZt/kVmc=:N328HU6+mQD3OXOnCG4i8b KSr5pMs8saBX0VspyB3umN0ejRD2ml5ke5uyEZ96FpY7slq4uRKjJp1nqs9fcV+a2Y40/vEQQ eJdr6nCPzYuB1ukVyn77nu7oLavM5lhlrSvJM4+b/LgPGRePtJIkth/G1usnXq3UdtydI9f1x tqUK8TC5885APdZ7hWS2RY2hlddlM1i1BwYbnOjs/e7jTcoSobZkisT/41py/YLusJ5/iuNMZ 1+m4I2YlPvHa7MX6RqRvdb1P9QVXEi9KjJhqUYbnWToyIBauUyWYTIoCssPSV2LEdIjdbyR0S FcNQVuG5RF6SbFccYii9Kxl91XEATnpJNcGWaLb8fzpH6bTKiTML8PK9C5It4v9Bmd0TlxxWd 0HxoYoYPoVsVwNdNZWhRmIfixLGcD+AYmQ0DoFGaGBYxvYZlccOmiWf55WdnsUYOk8CJCyv5W hdfruJEJjyLMI+RuMsQlLS/0NKJCfkpvS5DSp2pnmI97d5c5Pzc9hSTSRmsf0cqSWQUXiZ2pW 5vX5HVWSS+HxWNLMCaEyMwpmjCg87em5hwn1D5idnkVCpPbdGFEvjvaQg9h7CvwIg/2IuhMV0 zjpS6FNi4A9TAf1OWLtjJ5oUmkZBjSAx8L0xbzqWMzQMzsIJc7XDkZZGPo7hNT3BhmZaQanSN ZDPpVYYOPb9psbz6nQOWTo4Y+WBO7DBMertI6TRGrx1jvQS2ABKE8/WNHTHf4t0+PnMhZbQDa 2tQCixtxdftEaZRTQO2cwT5mUZmyl44hw+GB/sahbgsvjA+iMrn3EzzyH+0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:12735 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tristan Colgate writes: > To play the game a bit, I earned money writing guile, or rather, I wrote > guile to earn money. I wrote guile-snmp to manage several large networks. > guile-snmp was developed to run parts of the NHS.net network (I re-wrote > several tools back to perl net-snmp for the benefit of colleagues, but > tools were developed with guile-snmp first, far more quickly, and concise= ly > that I could have achieved otherwise). I used and extended it for a 5 or 6 > years and it became by far the best SNMP reporting tool I've ever used > (yes, I'm biased). I'm no longer in the network management business, and > SNMP has (unjustly) fallen out of favour, so sadly I don't really do much > with it any more. This is really cool! > More importantly, I learnt an enormous amount about functional > programming, learned to really lovee lisp (and scheme, and guile). That > knowledge definitely made me a better programmer. It made me really "get" > various aspects javascript development that I'd have struggled with > otherwise. Got me interested in SML and haskell (the alternatives to the > cult of lambda). > > So my time with guile has, indirectly, gotten me plenty of jobs, even = if > the people that hired me didn't know it. I don=E2=80=99t know how to put that, yet, but this isq a pretty strong quote. May I quote you on it? (though I=E2=80=99ll for starters only do tha= t on GNU social and twitter, because it=E2=80=99s easiest there) I started using Guile to expand the limits of what I can do elegantly in programming, and I feel that that expanded what I can do =E2=80=94 writing = three witches=C2=B9 showed me where Programming could be and how much of what I once considered as how programming works was actually ceremony, even with Python =E2=80=94 though Python still is the "rational" choice for many problems I face. Best wishes, Arne =C2=B9: http://www.draketo.de/english/wisp/shakespeare =2D-=20 Unpolitisch sein hei=C3=9Ft politisch sein ohne es zu merken --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXhU2WAAoJEBPvjUUkA8PrhN4P/jb+8KGrK9/hsg6VDUB94ppH riIwAGIBdgh3CVwff01UsoZG1BI8btizqj8K8Z05EdHv7x6R6+fcj09yA9M1EHkV bhY+6S4PSMqPVEjhUuZB73dP0kl5/zr/RohryU+GOt2VWm6XYX7GArr3z3J0Knvu 8SLMqEc7uU0Y4nQ9DU8ZRrrJqsmpi4n/F+rW5IQY/f9mLv/sv63fpB1l8XGE8LUz w5xkVXiULMv8GW6BPZjNAMK26v/olyWJM6LJz742QAtDBZpcF8xp+pSIS3sxsbA9 Qz3/ChZPHRegsS/h7fumU95cWtiKKK+tcn45Sxg4L3Wle6AxsT6POjPvZNfi37io YVwlg444TBZ5rqx43XPBOiZixgvfidBN/eUvQGEZSSIaNu2tqzyNWt56WkXP+fZt WLuCgGnSIPQwf4MODGKJVX1ntvFZFswoHc9Xedb1yHpolf7uXZCjnLfVb0SuJLAM SknoopaXmO4wIBHXOHXvvgKWjX45SEi8IEav/N+OV/7pgvxpLXmrkUIipRnJapXR QALKntUvhC5hxV7pTAZ3miEH+K/s1rSNMb0X6iJkwo92AMHbqfTqEIidipbu9gGP VkNDFN2NjXEnmTy+WPfPJyMopvzoZfoqaqEZ+QnM8B/O/MboCuqEA07DI7UWq3kp HtP5JNKBLpdlkp33N37V =UH84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--