Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:12 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> We should probably cross-link with the Python humor page on >>> python.org (unless that's also been axed). >>> >aahz> IIRC, the humor page was axed due to lack of updates -- I >aahz> recommend finding the materia

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-04 Thread skip
>> We should probably cross-link with the Python humor page on >> python.org (unless that's also been axed). >> aahz> IIRC, the humor page was axed due to lack of updates -- I aahz> recommend finding the material using Wayback and just adding it to aahz> the wiki. It's sti

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
Georg Brandl wrote: Oleg Broytmann schrieb: On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was an April Fool's RFC. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC -- it has a t

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-03 Thread Aahz
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I found the Python/Perl joint development press release, but only on the >> Wayback machine. It appears that when redesigning the python.org website >> that page was deemed inappropri

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Guido> Hm, I'm sure there were many more, perhaps in different places. > > I figured it's a slow Sunday so I'd collect them on the wiki: > >http://wiki.python.org/moin/AprilFools Great! > I found the Python/Perl joint develop

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes

2008-08-03 Thread Greg Ewing
Guido van Rossum wrote: Hm, I'm sure there were many more, perhaps in different places. Although it wasn't April 1, here's one I posted in response to python-dev discussions. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-May/084169.html There was also another one concerning how to reduce

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-03 Thread skip
Guido> Hm, I'm sure there were many more, perhaps in different places. I figured it's a slow Sunday so I'd collect them on the wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AprilFools I found the Python/Perl joint development press release, but only on the Wayback machine. It appears that when re

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hm, I'm sure there were many more, perhaps in different places. I recall participating with Larry Wall in the announcement of Parrot, a Python/Perl merger -- hence the name of the Perl 6 VM. And others. I'd love to see people post more references here! (Georg already posted the April Fool's PEPs.)

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes

2008-08-03 Thread Georg Brandl
Oleg Broytmann schrieb: On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was an April Fool's RFC. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC -- it has a ton of these. Great fun

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

2008-08-03 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was an April Fool's RFC. > > See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC -- it has > a ton of these. Great fun reading through