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FYI:

http://twitter.com/gvanrossum

Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a
genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What
an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
to Python in the last two decades!

On Dec 31 2009, 2:06*pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> FYI:
>
> http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
>
> Python is a truly awesome programming language. *Not only is Guido a
> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. *What
> an accomplishment. *Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
> to Python in the last two decades!

Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met
Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. Go BSD derivatives.

On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 03:25 -0800, J Peyret wrote:
> On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > FYI:
> >
> > http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
> >
> > Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a
> > genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What
> > an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
> > to Python in the last two decades!
>
> Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met
> Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. Go BSD derivatives.

Indeed,
python is a great programming language.
May be it was not marketted as much as languages like java or not as
much as platforms like rails.
But who cares? I must mention here that I am totally blind and the
talking software (screen reader ) I use on GNU/Linux called Orca is also
programmed using python.

And I make web applications and off late started to use pylons ( again
centered around python).
I see that python is for 2 kind of programmers.
one which are absolute beginners to programming itself who want to learn
the scientific art of programming and the second is the extreme experts
who need the power and performance nicely balanced.

Great work!

happy hfacking.
Krishnakant.

J Peyret wrote:
> On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> FYI:
>>
>> http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
>>
>> Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a
>> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What
>> an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
>> to Python in the last two decades!
>
> Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met
> Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being.
>
And anyone who says he isn't will be put into the comfy chair!

On Jan 1, 9:03*am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> J Peyret wrote:
> > On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> FYI:
>
> >>http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
>
> >> Python is a truly awesome programming language. *Not only is Guido a
> >> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. *What
> >> an accomplishment. *Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
> >> to Python in the last two decades!
>
> > Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met
> > Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being.
>
> And anyone who says he isn't will be put into the comfy chair!

And poked with the soft cushions!

On Jan 1, 6:04*am, Krishnakant <hackin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 03:25 -0800, J Peyret wrote:
> > On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > FYI:
>
> > >http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
>
> > > Python is a truly awesome programming language. *Not only is Guido a
> > > genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. *What
> > > an accomplishment. *Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
> > > to Python in the last two decades!
>
> > Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met
> > Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. *Go BSD derivatives.
>
> Indeed,
> python is a great programming language.
> May be it was not marketted as much as languages like java or not as
> much as platforms like rails.
> But who cares? *I must mention here that I am totally blind and the
> talking software (screen reader ) I use on GNU/Linux called Orca is also
> programmed using python.
>
> And I make web applications and off late started to use pylons ( *again
> centered around python).
> I see that python is for 2 kind of programmers.
> one which are absolute beginners to programming itself who want to learn
> the scientific art of programming and the second is the extreme experts
> who need the power and performance nicely balanced.
>
> Great work!
>
> happy hfacking.
> Krishnakant.

That's incredible.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:06:24PM EST, Steve Howell wrote:

> FYI:
>
> http://twitter.com/gvanrossum
>
> Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a
> genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What
> an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed
> to Python in the last two decades!

Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less response,
and get much less coverage, than Xah Lee's

I guess Guido's not one to care much about beauty contests anyway.

HNY,

CJ

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:19:02PM EST, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Jones <> writes:

> > Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less
> > response, and get much less coverage […]
>
> The entirety of ‘comp.lang.python’ is an ongoing response to Guido van
> Rossum's achievements (and all the others that make Python great).
> Mere week- or month-long threads are paltry by comparison.

That I understand. But my remark was not really about Guido.. but rather
in a roundabout way, more of a poke at Xah Lee, hopefully avoiding the
troll-feeding trap. Sorry you missed my point.

Come to think of it, since I have nothing much to say about python, but
nevertheless enjoy reading most of the material on this list, this was
mostly an excuse to wish everyone here a Happy New Year.

CJ

i'm sobered up
Yes of course Guido and his lang is both superb things

Ok, let me evolve a bit my thought.
Guido is Eropean Culture.
Now say what was invented by Japanese, by Chinese?
Nothing.
Barbaric cultures, they are animals inborn animals.
Russian Sikorsky built choppers for Eisenhower.
Look at letter "S" on them -- its his name
What you know about his destiny?
You know knothing. Yuou don't know that only the
greatest Russian composer Rakhmaninov helped him, in America.
Literally -- by money, the composer gave him all his fortune ~$1500
Be not this help -- no choppers in America