12 years of Python and only at v2.2

Manuel M. Garcia mgarcia at cole-switches.com
Tue Dec 3 17:53:53 EST 2002


On 3 Dec 2002 22:38:03 GMT, Jeremy Yallop
<jeremy at jdyallop.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
(edit)
>Well, the first beta release of GCC was in 1987, and it only reached
>version 3.0 last year.  On the other hand, version 1.0 of Microsoft
>Windows was released in 1985 and I understand that it has now passed
>version 2000.

Since they cannot count higher than 2000 in Redmond, MS needs to use
letters now, hence XP, XQ, XR etc.

Manuel



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