[ten_hands]

Slightly amusing story: the year is 1990-something and I'm in grad school working a lab where we do electromagnetic simulation. That code has to run fast, obviously, but some of us in the lab were looking for some glue language to wrap around the very utilitarian C that the simulation code was written in.

One of us started playing with Perl. He ended up dropping out and going to work as a SysAdmin.

One of us started playing with Tcl/Tk. He ended up changing majors and going into UI/UX testing.

I started playing with Python, which at that point was, I think, at 0.9.2 or something. Eventually, after some twists and turns, I went on to work on ML stuff.

Is there a lesson in that? Probably not, but somehow I find it amusing all the same.