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

Lukasz Langa lukasz at langa.pl
Sat Jan 27 20:19:36 EST 2018


On 27 Jan, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

We probably should (if possible) create an archive (with dates) of very old (or all, actually) versions of CPython, analogous to what The Unix Heritage Society does for V5, V7, etc., but for CPython... Or is there one already? I found a bunch of 1.x's, but no 0.x's. What I found was at http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/

If I remember correctly, Dave Beazley, who went on this particular adventure a few months back, concluded that other releases are lost forever due to FTPs and their mirrors going offline over time. He did find a tarball of 0.9.1 reconstructed by Andrew Dalke from usenet posts.

Read on, this is pretty fascinating: https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/934590421984075776 <https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/934590421984075776>



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