[Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Aug 3 16:56:16 CEST 2008

Hm, I'm sure there were many more, perhaps in different places. I recall participating with Larry Wall in the announcement of Parrot, a Python/Perl merger -- hence the name of the Perl 6 VM. And others. I'd love to see people post more references here! (Georg already posted the April Fool's PEPs.)

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > That was an April Fool's RFC.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AprilFools%27DayRFC -- it has a ton of these. Great fun reading through some of them on an idle Saturday afternoon. :-) There were a lot of Python jokes for the Apr 1st. What a pity we have ceased to make such jokes. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/076593.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/197232.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-April/256320.html (Despite being a joke it really works!) http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/315453.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/315457.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/375866.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd at phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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