On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:19 PM, François Pinard wrote: >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.
I remember when comp.lang.python was created. Sure, I'm a Monty Python fan, but the first (seems like) several months of posts were just about the comedy team and had very little to do with a new language. So I ignored it, until about 1994. >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! How cool! -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
