Multi-threaded programs are hot and so is Python. We also have articles on Palm Pilot development tools and writing a simple plotting program. Check out our interview with Brian Behlendorf of Collab. Net, proprietor of the SourceXchange project. We also talk again to Darryl Strauss to find out what is happening in the world of 3-D graphics.
Some people collect spoons, others collect languages.
Eric Raymond collects languages, and his latest find is Python. We've liked Python for a long time and so decided not only to include a feature article on Python in this issue, but also publish an entire supplement devoted to it. That supplement comes to you with this issue. We hope you enjoy it.