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

[Steve Simmons]

It's in recognition of the gap between English and French - it helps you to bridge it.


Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>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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>Mark Lawrence
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