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.
Excellent plan! Devious minds are attracted to Python, like mimes to unappreciative crowds.
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
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.
And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?
Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.