[Python-Dev] built on beer? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 18:11:55 CEST 2004

I don't know where that quote comes from, but it's true! During the early days, when hacking on Python, I often lived on stroopwafels and beer. (If you've never visited the Netherlands, you must Google for stroopwafels. :-)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:28:05 -0700, Tommy Burnette <tommy at ilm.com> wrote:

apologies for replying to my own posting- the "fact" I wished to advertise was the beer one, not the nokia one! Tommy Burnette writes: | hey team,

| | in a completely un-python-related thread about mobile phones last | week, a friend (who I did not know knew anything about python), when | asked what made a certain nokia phone stand out above one from another | company, replied: | | | "... nokia runs python, the language built on beer." | | | does the PSF have any t-shirts that advertise this fact? :) | | _| ________________________ | Python-Dev mailing list | Python-Dev at python.org | http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev | Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/tommy%40ilm.com

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