The Python item

Sep 16 23:33 UTC 2006

The Python programming language came out of the Amoeba distributed operating
system built by Andy Tanenbaum at the Free University in Amsterdam.  Guido
van Rossum, who was working in the Amoeba group, wanted a systems programming
language somewhere between C and the Bourne shell, and created Python.

Python now runs on a variety of different platforms, is fully object-oriented,
compiles to an internal bytecode representation, and features an extensive
class library.  Ask about it here.

response 2 of 9:

Sep 22 22:30 UTC 2006

i like how the Python interpreter in Windows comes with a programming manual.

response 4 of 9:

Jan 5 10:31 UTC 2010

I do not like how I cannot read Python code on a 80-character terminal.  I
think the funny structural indentation concept just leaves older hardware out.

response 6 of 9:

Jan 13 15:32 UTC 2010

Yes, but try setting column width on a real VT-100 from circa 1980
sometime.