William L. Sibert
Overview
 
William Luther Sibert was born in Gadsden, Alabama on October 12, 1860. After attending the University of Alabama from 1879 to 1880, he entered the U.S. Military Academy and was appointed a Second Lieutenant of Engineers on June 15, 1884. His appointment was a distinction as only the top 10 percent of each West Point class was then commissioned in the Engineers.

He graduated from the Engineer School of Applications in 1887 and went on to hold several Engineer positions in the United States and overseas.

In 1899, he was assigned as the Chief Engineer of the 8th Army Corps and the Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Manila and Dagupan Railroad during the Philippine Insurrection.
Quotations

Excellent plan! Devious minds are attracted to Python, like mimes to unappreciative crowds.

Tim Peters, 13 Nov 1998

Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.

Larry Wall (author of Perl), May 12 2004

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Guido van Rossum, 13 Aug 1996

And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?

Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python

Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.

Steve Holden, June 2005, on comp.lang.python

 
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