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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 12:08:13 EST 2018

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> wrote:

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

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/QUzdEGFwCo/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ It is very entertaining to read.

Yes, it is. In twenty years, some things have not changed at all:

Python is an interpreted language, and has the usual advantages of such languages, such as run-time checks (e.g. bounds checking), execution of dynamically generated code, automatic memory allocation, high level operations on strings, lists and dictionaries (associative arrays), and a fast edit-compile-run cycle. Additionally, it features modules, classes, exceptions, and dynamic linking of extensions written in C or C++. It has arbitrary precision integers.

But some things have:

(Please don't ask me to mail it to you -- at 1.76 Megabytes it is unwieldy at least...)

hehe.

Thanks for digging that up!

ChrisA

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