🤔 Guido Van Rossum and A Bat Ray. I Was Really Worried!

Tom Smykowski
6 min readApr 9, 2024

Guido van Rossum doesn’t have to be introduced to a narrow group of tech geeks with me included. He’s the creator of Python. But we didn’t hear from him for a while, so I’ve checked what Guido is up to!

Python Rocked The Blue Rock

Python is one of the most popular programming languages for a very specific reason. It allows people from different fields to process data without having to resort to programmers.

Even in geology. Jack Maughan is a senior data scientist at Datarock based in Adelaide, South Australia.

The company is offering a cloud platform that analyses photos of rock cores and provides actionable insights about rocks collected.

Jack Maughan states:

The possibilities of using python in geoscience are endless. You can graph, model, analyse and plot all kinds of geophysical, geological or geochemical data, you just have to learn it first.

The ease of use on a par with versatility rocked not only geology but also data science in general and computer science specifically.

I was able to write this article, because…

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.