[Python-Dev] built on beer?

[Guido van Rossum]

I don't know where that quote comes from, but it's true! During the
early days, when hacking on Python, I often lived on stroopwafels and
beer. (If you've never visited the Netherlands,  you *must* Google for
stroopwafels. :-)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:28:05 -0700, Tommy Burnette <tommy at ilm.com> wrote:
> 
> apologies for replying to my own posting- the "fact" I wished to
> advertise was the beer one, not the nokia one!
> 
> Tommy Burnette writes:
> | hey team,
> 
> 
> |
> | in a completely un-python-related thread about mobile phones last
> | week, a friend (who I did not know knew anything about python), when
> | asked what made a certain nokia phone stand out above one from another
> | company, replied:
> |
> |
> |       "... nokia runs python, the language built on beer."
> |
> |
> | does the PSF have any t-shirts that advertise this fact? :)
> |
> |
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