On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> 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/...
It is very entertaining to read.
Yes, it is. In twenty years, some things have not changed at all:
Python is an interpreted language, and has the usual advantages of such languages, such as run-time checks (e.g. bounds checking), execution of dynamically generated code, automatic memory allocation, high level operations on strings, lists and dictionaries (associative arrays), and a fast edit-compile-run cycle. Additionally, it features modules, classes, exceptions, and dynamic linking of extensions written in C or C++. It has arbitrary precision integers.
But some things have:
(Please don't ask me to mail it to you -- at 1.76 Megabytes it is unwieldy at least...)
hehe. Thanks for digging that up! ChrisA