[Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994 (original) (raw)

Senthil Kumaran senthil at uthcode.com
Sat Jan 27 11:58:54 EST 2018

Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago.

It is very entertaining to read.

Guido was the release manager, which is now taken up by other core-dev volunteers.
Announcement highlighted readable syntax.
The announcement takes a dig at Perl and Bash. While Bourne shell is still very relevant and might continue for a long time, we recognize the difference is use cases for Bash and Python.
Documentation was LaTeX and PostScript.
Error-free builds on SGI IRIX 4 and 5, Sun SunOS 4 and Solaris 2, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix and OSF/1, IBM AIX, and SCO ODT 3.0. :-) We no longer have them.
You used WWW viewer to view the documentation and got the files via FTP.

Fun times! Cheers to Guido and everyone contributing to Python.

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