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On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> wrote:
\> Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27
\> Jan 1994\. That is, on this day, 20 years ago.
\>
\> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/\_QUzdEGFwCo/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ
\>
\> It is very entertaining to read.

Yes, it is. In twenty years, some things have not changed at all:

\> Python is an interpreted language, and has the usual advantages of
\> such languages, such as run-time checks (e.g. bounds checking),
\> execution of dynamically generated code, automatic memory allocation,
\> high level operations on strings, lists and dictionaries (associative
\> arrays), and a fast edit-compile-run cycle. Additionally, it features
\> modules, classes, exceptions, and dynamic linking of extensions
\> written in C or C++. It has arbitrary precision integers.

But some things have:

\> (Please don't ask me to mail it to you -- at 1.76 Megabytes it is
\> unwieldy at least...)

hehe.

Thanks for digging that up!

ChrisA

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