Jeff Bauer <jba...@rubic.com> writes: > Hah! So funny for you to bring up *that* specific post from Barry.
:-) > So when your email arrived, my reader threaded it back to Barry's > 2-year-old post. Old email, that's always fun! Soon after Guido announced his first release of Python, a long long time ago, I tried it. At the time, I was trying everything :-). And besides, I was already prejudiced towards Guido because of his competent implication as a maintainer of the Audio/Sound FAQ (if I remember correctly). We corresponded for a little while on a friendly tone. I did not stay with Python for long, the window system coming with it was not as usable as I initially hoped. Life is such that I forgot the whole matter for about nine or ten years, maybe. Then, Han-Wen (from the Lilypond fame) convinced me to give Python a good look. I guess it was Python 1.5.2 at the time, which I found very worth learning and using; no trace anymore of a window system or Emacs emulator to distract me from the language. Cleaning around, I found an old letter from Guido, written at the time of my initial tries, containing many interesting comments. So I replied specifically to these comments, and Guido replied to my reply, and we pursued the conversation exactly as if it has been from yesterday! :-) It was kind of surrealist, naive, and fun! François _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
