[Python-3000] Py3k Trivia :-) (original) (raw)
Nicholas Bastin nick.bastin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 21:00:23 CEST 2007
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On 9/21/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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?
Slower. If we get up to 8 we can go for an exciting ride! :-)
-- Nick
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