I quizzed my class tonight: "Why is Python in the news again?"
The hint: someone famous, as in prize-worthy, is a fan thereof.
I talked about ISEPP (Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy) and the big name lecture series (Goodall, Leakey, Sagan...), suggesting someone of stature.
Answer (revealed after suitable time): Paul Romer, just awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (shared).
He's a big promoter of the Jupyter Notebook ecosystem, of which Python is a big part (explains the "py").
Actually, the ties to ISEPP are closer in that Terry, the ringleader, is a Romer fan and cites him in his slides and videos. That's probably why Wanderers were tracking from the get go.
