On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
