Python Chip

[Martijn Faassen]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [Martijn Faassen]
> > For those who are still anxiously itching to get their hands on a Python
> > machine, this was of course an April Fool's joke. :)
> 
> Oh, *now* you tell me, just hours before we were to tape out final silicon!
> Wonder whether I can get my money back.

Sorry. :) Actually it thought it was a nice example of
comp.lang.python's flame/spam immune system that this thread immediately
mutated into a quite serious discussion on Forth/Java/Pascal/etc chips.
  
> > You can now all come to destroy me now. (any other jokes in this
> > newsgroup which I missed?)
> 
> Marc posted a nice amendment to his conference's menu, but all in all c.l.py
> was a deadly serious gaggle of humorless geekoids this year.  Maybe that's
> appropriate, though, since Guido *was* run over by an April 1st bus.

I missed this one. :)

> thank-god-for-the-fully-automated-python-release-process-ly y'rs  - tim

yeah-good-thing-Guido's-time-machine-can-travel-forward-in-time-too-ly
yours,

Martijn