Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 10:32:14 Albert Hopkins did opine: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? -a Born in Oct 1934. 78yo now.

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Rui Maciel
rusi wrote: Heh! I am reminded: Some years ago a new reprint of Knuth's Art of Programming had on the back cover something to the effect that this was 'classical CS.' So what then is pop-CS, folk-CS? Knuth's work is undoubtedly classic. Classic: 1. of the first or highest quality,

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote: rusi wrote: Heh! I am reminded: Some years ago a new reprint of Knuth's Art of Programming had on the back cover something to the effect that this was 'classical CS.' So what then is pop-CS, folk-CS? Knuth's work is

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread rusi
On Feb 20, 2:20 pm, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote: rusi wrote: Heh! I am reminded: Some years ago a new reprint of Knuth's Art of Programming had on the back cover something to the effect that this was

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On 20/02/2013 12:03, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? -a Yeah, 2078 - Marty McFly, Back From the Future. Kewl !!

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Steve Simmons square.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/2013 12:03, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Rotwang
On 20/02/2013 03:53, Barry W Brown wrote: [...] Homer Simpson put it accurately last night. I used to be with it when I was younger. But it moved and now what I am with is no longer it. Sorry to be pedantic, but the quote you're thinking of is from Abe Simpson: