Guido van Rossum

Oh, that is ironic.

Oh, absolutely.

Well, that's about one bug every 15 lines, and that's when you're first typing it in.

If you're typing it in... Well, the development process is extremely iterative.

Yeah.

Typically, you don't make a plan for what software you're going to release a year from now.

Yeah.

And work out all the details, because actually all the details themselves consist... They sort of compose a program.

And that...

Being a program, all your plans will have bugs in them too and inaccuracies.

But what you actually do is you do a bunch of typing.

And I'm actually really, I'm a really bad typist.

That's just, I've never learned to type with 10 fingers.

How many do you use?

Well, I use all 10 of them, but not very well.

But I never took a typing class, and I never sort of corrected that.

So the first time I seriously learned, I had to learn the layout of a QWERTY keyboard was actually in college in my first programming classes where we used punch cards.

And so with my two fingers, I sort of pecked out my code.

Watch anyone give you a little coding demonstration.

They'll have to produce like four lines of code and now see how many times they use the backspace key because they made a mistake.