ActiveState announces four new Python-related projects (PythonDirect, Komodo, Visual Python, ActivePython). PythonLabs announces four planet-sized-brains are going to be working on the Python implementation full time. PythonWare announces PythonWorks. Is that the sound of pieces falling into place or of a rumbling avalanche "warming up" before obliterating everything in its path? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I want to give beauty pageants the respectability they deserve." - Brooke Ross, Miss Canada International
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:
ActiveState announces four new Python-related projects (PythonDirect, Komodo, Visual Python, ActivePython).
PythonLabs announces four planet-sized-brains are going to be working on the Python implementation full time.
Five.
PythonWare announces PythonWorks.
Is that the sound of pieces falling into place or of a rumbling avalanche "warming up" before obliterating everything in its path?
Full-on, robot chubby earthquake. :-) I agree with the basic premise: Python *is* going to get a lot more visibility than it has enjoyed in the past. You might even add that the latest GNOME release (1.2) has excellent Python support. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
"Gordo" == Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> writes:
Gordo> No, he said "planet-sized-brains", not "planet-sized-egos". Gordo> Just notice how long it takes Barry to figure out who I Gordo> meant.... Waaaaiitt a second.... I /do/ have a very large brain. I keep it in a jar on the headboard of my bed, surrounded by a candlelit homage to Geddy Lee. How else do you think I got so studly playing bass?
Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw@python.org>:
Waaaaiitt a second....
I /do/ have a very large brain. I keep it in a jar on the headboard of my bed, surrounded by a candlelit homage to Geddy Lee. How else do you think I got so studly playing bass?
Ah, yes. We take you back now to that splendid year of 1978. Cue a certain high-voiced Canadian singing The trouble with the Perl guys is they're quite convinced they're right... Duuude.... -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. -- James Earl Jones
"PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
PP> Is that the sound of pieces falling into place or of a PP> rumbling avalanche "warming up" before obliterating everything PP> in its path? Or a big foot hurtling its way earthward? The question is, what's that thing under the shadow of the big toe? I can only vaguely make out the first of four letters, and I think it's a `P'. :) -Barry
"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
Or a big foot hurtling its way earthward? The question is, what's that thing under the shadow of the big toe? I can only vaguely make out the first of four letters, and I think it's a `P'.
Look closer, big-egoed-four-stringed-guitar-playing-one. It could just as easily be a J. And you know what you get when you put P and J together? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I want to give beauty pageants the respectability they deserve." - Brooke Ross, Miss Canada International
"PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
PP> Look closer, big-egoed-four-stringed-guitar-playing-one. It PP> could just as easily be a J. <squint> Could be! The absolute value of my diopter is about as big as my ego. PP> And you know what you get when you put P and J together? A very tasty sammich! -Barry
On 31 May 2000, Paul Prescod said:
Look closer, big-egoed-four-stringed-guitar-playing-one. It could just as easily be a J.
And you know what you get when you put P and J together?
Pajamas! Yes, that's right, when Python takes over the world, we'll all have to sleep BUCK NAKED!!! (What was that about "zero noise" on python-dev? Oh well, we must have our fun...) Greg
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