[Edu-sig] re Guido's talk at Europython

[Arthur]

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> 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