On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:58:54AM -0800, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> wrote: > Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 > Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago.
24 years ago, no? (-: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ > > > It is very entertaining to read. > > * Guido was the release manager, which is now taken up by other core-dev > volunteers. > > * Announcement highlighted *readable* syntax. > > * The announcement takes a dig at Perl and Bash. While Bourne shell is > still very relevant and might continue for a long time, we recognize the > difference is use cases for Bash and Python. > > * Documentation was LaTeX and PostScript. HTML was not very popular in those times! :-))) > * Error-free builds on SGI IRIX 4 and 5, Sun SunOS 4 and Solaris 2, HP-UX, > DEC Ultrix and OSF/1, IBM AIX, and SCO ODT 3.0. :-) We no longer have them. We now have Linux, Linux, and Linux. And best of all, Linux! ;-) > * You used WWW viewer to view the documentation and got the files via FTP. > > Fun times! Cheers to Guido and everyone contributing to Python. > > Thanks, > Senthil Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
