Future of the Python Linux Distribution
Cameron Laird
claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Mon May 8 09:16:58 EDT 2000
In article <m3itwqt2ji.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> writes:
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>> > - age. the other "P" language[0] has been around a little longer.. right?
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>> I hear this tossed around a lot. How *much* longer?
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>I think perl was born in 1987 and Python in 1991. Not sure about
>either of those though.
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Larry was working on Perl in 1986. It acquired the
name and appeared as a 1.0 in the last month of 1987.
Guido chose his project and its name in December 1989.
Executables existed during 1990. The first public
release was in 1991.
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