[Baypiggies] {Baypiggies] Python support in ubuntu

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jan 4 23:53:20 CET 2006


On 1/4/06, Alex Martelli <aleax at google.com> wrote:
> As I recall Mark's long-term ambitions were
> higher than "good python support", basically enabling somebody, say a
> schoolmaster in a remote African village, to do ALL system
> administration and customization knowing _only_ Python as their
> scripting language (no knowledge whatsoever of tcl, perl, bash, etc,
> required for the purpose); but maybe (my memory's uncertain) that
> wasn't at Mark's keynote, but later during the conference dinner.

I was there and recall something similar.

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