-----Original Message----- From: edu-sig-bounces@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of urnerk@qwest.net Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:53 AM To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: [Edu-sig] re Guido's talk at Europython
So I attended Guido's 'Why I Invented Python' talk in conference room VV today (Swedes like V and K above other letters, it seems to me).
I learned quite a bit of history from this talk. He paid a lot of tribute to ABC (a language for non-programmers needing to write programs) for being inspirational, but he also learned from its failures, and its "world-wide non-adoption." Python would be different (and it was).
I had listened to a recent interview Guido gave ("Building an Open Source Project and Community") that covered much of the same territory. http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail545.html And enjoyed it - found it candid, down-to-earth, and suitably proud. Art