Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-28 Thread Sebastian Krause
Guido van Rossum wrote: > For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt > declared, while we were well into 2.x territory, was still the best Python > ever. (I didn't agree, but 1.5.2 did serve us very well for a long time.) That makes me feel better

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 27, 2018, at 21:45, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt > declared, while we were well into 2.x territory, was still the best Python > ever. (I didn't agree, but 1.5.2 did serve us very well for a long

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
David Beazley has also collected various historic releases here: https://github.com/dabeaz/hoppy/tree/master/Ancient -- he's got 0.9.1, 0.9.6, 0.9.7beta1, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, and 1.0.3. For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt declared, while we were well into 2.x

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Lukasz Langa
> On 27 Jan, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Dan Stromberg 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Dan Stromberg
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Actually Python was born in December 1989 and first released open source in February 1991. I don't recall what version number that was, perhaps 0.1.0. The 1994 date was just the release of 1.0! On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 27/01/18 17:05,

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Lukasz Langa
> On 27 Jan, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Simon Cross > wrote: > > Python Party Proposal! Oh, that's okay then. For a second there I got reminded of the dreadful days of trying to get dial-up to work on Linux with a winmodem. PPP. Shudder. - Ł signature.asc

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Simon Cross
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Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Simon Cross wrote: > We need a PPP! Playful Python Party?! Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmanhttp://phdru.name/p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Simon Cross
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Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/01/18 17:05, Oleg Broytman wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:58:54AM -0800, Senthil Kumaran 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. 24 years ago, no? (-: Correct so we

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread David Mertz
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 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran > wrote: > > Someone

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran 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 >

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:58:54AM -0800, Senthil Kumaran 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. 24 years ago, no? (-: >

[Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Senthil Kumaran
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. * Guido was the release manager, which is now taken