[Python-3000] Py3k Trivia :-) (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Sep 22 03:55:10 CEST 2007
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On 9/21/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote: > """ > George isn't tall enough to ride the greatest rollercoaster of all > time, The Turbo Python 3000. He uses licorice whips to measure his > height and determines that he is 7-whips tall, one short of the 8-whip > minimum! > """
Fantastic! I vote that we hereby adopt the licorice whip as the standard unit for measuring the speed of Python 3.0 implementations, with the speed of 2.6 (whatever it turns out to be) defined as 7 whips.
Ah, but is 6 whips faster or slower than 7 whips?
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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