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I've decided it's time to have a podcast about programming languages, and am looking for some enthusiastic users that might consider themselves an expert in a particular language.

I envision the interviews taking place over Skype, and lasting no more than an hour. We'll cover the basics about the history of the language, what it does well, and what it doesn't do quite so well. We'll then go into a more personal look as how the language has helped you in your current projects.

I'm really open to languages: Python, Ruby, Lisp flavors, Objective-C, C#, F#, Haskell, Erlang, etc. If you have used it for a project in the past year or two, and thought it was great, let's share it with this podcast.

If you're interested in being one of the first people I interview for the show, please email me at jon@ (my username) .com. Include what language(s) you would like to talk about, and what projects you've worked on using the language.

Future episodes will focus more on the use cases of a language, and try to showcase a new idea from the language or a library that hasn't been previously covered.

Additionally, since this is an Ask thread, if you have any suggestions or ideas please let me know. :)

In my spare time, I've been working on a product that has a fair amount of interest around it. I have no doubt that once I get the product finished, the company will be successful and profitable. I see some market opportunities that is making me want to push harder and get done sooner, but with a day job paying my bills, I can only move so fast.

Thus, I think to myself, how about getting an investor or a loan? Loans are pretty much out of the option, as far as I can tell, because I don't have enough assets personally (and if I did, I wouldn't need one!). And when looking at investors, it appears that most of them look for some "big money" event.

But that's the conflict of interest, I suppose. I have no problems making money, but I'm not doing this startup because I want to make a ton of money going public or being acquired. I'm doing the startup because it's something I love, and something I want to be able to use myself.

Inevitably, I resign myself to the double life of my day job and my passion. So the question to everyone here is: what's a guy like me to do? Are there options that would allow me to dedicate my entire life to this that I haven't considered and won't make me feel like I'm selling out?