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

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sun Aug 3 11:19:48 CEST 2008


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.

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