Chronology of the founding fathers (was: Python vs. PHP (& Java?))

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.977912052.14706.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
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>As for why Python isn't PHP, well, because it isn't. Python is a fair bit
>older than PHP, and simply wasn't intended as an 'html-embedded-language'.
>It was intended as a proper, easy to learn, easy to read, efficient (from
>the programmers view) language, and not as a quick-and-dirty-hack to allow
>code inbetween HTML :) The WWW and HTML did exist, but were only just
>starting, when Python emerged.
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1989:  Tim Berners-Lee writes hypertext proposal that
       will become the WWW.  "Universal Document Ident-
       ifier" is one keyword.
December 1989:  Guido van Rossum designs Python.
1990:  First Python instance executes (on Macintosh!).
       Guido distributes early versions.
1990:  TBL writes first version of "WorlDwidEweb" point-
       and-click hypertext editor.
1991:  TBL releases Web server and WorlDwidEweb to hyper-
       text community.  He publishes specs for HTTP,
       HTML, and (slightly disguised) URIs.
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