PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/04/2013 16:30, Pierre O'Dee wrote:
>
> Some features have already been hinted at for the new language.
> No Unicode -- BAUDOT is expected to be the new character
> encoding.
>
> --Pierre O'Dee, self-appointed spokesman for the PSF
>

This is excellent news, no unicode means no chance of any performance 
regressions whilst implementing stupid things like memory savings and 
correctness.

One question, why use a character encoding that's named after a very 
famous French actress?

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