[Chicago] Good readings on the history of computing

[Carl Karsten]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python is a newer language

[citation needed]

It is over 20 years old.

granted pep 8:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Created:05-Jul-2001

But back to your question about why 79 chars, I think because many of
us (like me) use text based editors in text based environments like an
ssh shell that defaults to 80 chars.

and back on topic, you may like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCwRGHj5jOE "26 years with Erlang or
How I got my grey hairs"



-- 
Carl K