[Python-Dev] Tim Berners-Lee likes Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Guido]
> > I was tickled when I found a quote from Tim Berners-Lee about Python
> > here: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/#L88
> >
> > Most quotable part: "Python is a language you can get into on one
> > battery!"
> 
> Most baffling part:  "One day, 15 minutes before I had to leave for the
> airport, I got my laptop back out of my bag, and sucked off the web the
> python 1.6 system ...".  What about python.org steered people toward 1.6?  Of
> course, Tim *is* a Tim, and they're not always rational ...

My guess is this was before 2.0 final was released.  I don't blame
him.  And after all, he's a Tim -- he can do what he wants to! :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)