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 <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > mertz%40gnosis.cx > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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