first release of PyPy

[Shane Hathaway]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> Basically, there's a *lot* of history in programming languages. I'd
> hate to see someone think that we went straight from assembler to C,
> or that people didn't understand the value of dynamic languages very
> early.

Yes, although I wasn't following historical events; I was following the
trends of what programmers in general have used.  Theory has always been
far ahead of practice... and generalizations are never correct. ;-)

Shane