PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Pierre O'Dee
PSF [Beaverton, OR] 1 April 2013 -- At a news conference held earlier today, Guido van Rossum announced that he is quitting Python to develop a new language. Python just makes programming too damn easy and too bug-free, Guido said as part of his remarks in a brief, prepared statement. He added,

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: One insider shared unconfirmed rumors that Mr. Johnson will be attempting to revive and steer the now defunct Python language It's about time his untiring contributions to this list and the language were recognized. I

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-04-01, Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: [...] It took me an embarassingly long time to 'get' Mr. O'Dee's name. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I put aside my copy at of BOWLING WORLD and

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2013-04-01, Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: [...] It took me an embarassingly long time to 'get' Mr. O'Dee's name. I only just did now, after you pointed it out. Must be an accent thing, that's not

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Emanuel Woiski
On 2013-04-01, Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: Guido went on to say that he's now working on a new language called Giddy-up-and-Go which will take the worst features of C++, Java, and French combined with elements of both PHP and Klingon syntax. [...] We are all eagerly waitin' for the

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 01/04/2013 16:30, Pierre O'Dee wrote: Some features have already been hinted at for the new language. No Unicode -- BAUDOT is expected to be the new character encoding. --Pierre O'Dee, self-appointed spokesman for the PSF This is excellent news, no unicode means no chance of any

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/01/2013 10:21 AM, Emanuel Woiski wrote: On 2013-04-01, Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: Guido went on to say that he's now working on a new language called Giddy-up-and-Go which will take the worst features of C++, Java, and French combined with elements of both PHP and Klingon

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Steve Simmons
It's in recognition of the gap between English and French - it helps you to bridge it. Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 01/04/2013 16:30, Pierre O'Dee wrote: Some features have already been hinted at for the new language. No Unicode -- BAUDOT is expected to be the new

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread John Ladasky
On Monday, April 1, 2013 8:30:56 AM UTC-7, Pierre O'Dee wrote: Guido went on to say that he's now working on a new language called Giddy-up-and-Go which will take the worst features of C++, Java, and French combined with elements of both PHP and Klingon syntax. He said that this new endeavor

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread llanitedave
Another detail about the new language: the Btrees used in Python's persistent object data structures have been replaced by... A SHRUBBERY! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 04/01/2013 10:30 AM, Pierre O'Dee wrote: PSF [Beaverton, OR] 1 April 2013 -- At a news conference held Amazing that this should show up when it did. Just today, we had Board Meeting at the intergalactic HQ of TundraWare Inc. and finally decided to move forward with this project we'd

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 04/01/2013 01:32 PM, llanitedave wrote: Another detail about the new language: the Btrees used in Python's persistent object data structures have been replaced by... A SHRUBBERY! I believe you mean A 'oly shrubbery, do you not? --

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread llanitedave
On Monday, April 1, 2013 12:59:04 PM UTC-7, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 04/01/2013 01:32 PM, llanitedave wrote: Another detail about the new language: the Btrees used in Python's persistent object data structures have been replaced by... A SHRUBBERY! I believe you mean A 'oly

Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

2013-04-01 Thread Tim Roberts
Pierre O'Dee invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: Guido went on to say that he's now working on a new language called Giddy-up-and-Go which will take the worst features of C++, Java, and French combined with elements of both PHP and Klingon syntax. This would seem like the ideal programming language