Why not a Python compiler?

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Reedick, Andrew writes:

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>> list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Bronger
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>> 
>>> I wonder if George Lucas intended it as a joke or if he thought
>>> a parsec was a unit of time.
>> 
>> The latter because it was corrected in the novelization.
>
> Errr... didn't one of the novels explain it away by describing the
> kessel run as a region of space warped by black holes or other
> objects?  Bragging rights for crossing such a field thus centered
> on shortest distance instead of time.

Well, in the link that Grant provided, it says

    In the A New Hope novelization, Han says "standard time units"
    rather than "parsecs". Therefore, the reduced distance of Solo's
    Kessel Run is most likely a retcon to explain George Lucas's
    confusion of time and distance units.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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