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Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 Jan 1994\. That is, on this day, 20 years ago.
It is very entertaining to read.
\* Guido was the release manager, which is now taken up by other core-dev volunteers.
\* Announcement highlighted \*readable\* syntax.
\* The announcement takes a dig at Perl and Bash. While Bourne shell is still very relevant and might continue for a long time, we recognize the difference is use cases for Bash and Python.
\* Documentation was LaTeX and PostScript.
\* Error-free builds on SGI IRIX 4 and 5, Sun SunOS 4 and Solaris 2, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix and OSF/1, IBM AIX, and SCO ODT 3.0\. :-) We no longer have them.
\* You used WWW viewer to view the documentation and got the files via FTP.
Fun times! Cheers to Guido and everyone contributing to Python.
Thanks,
Senthil