Future of the Python Linux Distribution

[Vetle Roeim]

* Cameron Laird
> 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.
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> Guido chose his project and its name in December 1989.
> Executables existed during 1990.  The first public
> release was in 1991.

geez.. have I been missing out on Python for this long! I have som
catching up to do..


vr