[Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994 (original) (raw)
David Mertz mertz at gnosis.cx
Sat Jan 27 12:35:41 EST 2018
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Does anyone have an archive of the Python 1.0 documentation? Sadly http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/Python.html is not a live URL :-).
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
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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