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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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adamnemecek ◴[12 Jul 18 16:16 UTC] No.17516031[source]▶
Even though I write python only if it’s going to be like 200 loc tops, it’s insane how gracefully the language has aged. It came out in 91, thus predating for example Java. Fun fact, I believe the very first google scraper was written in it.

At the same time I can’t wait for the next language to replace it.

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sametmax ◴[12 Jul 18 16:52 UTC] No.17516428[source]▶
People often don't realize this. We hear a lot that python is moving too fast or too slow. To say that disregard the delicate balance the language had to dance on for 20 years. It's crazy.
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adamnemecek ◴[12 Jul 18 16:57 UTC] No.17516476[source]▶
Agree but it’s closer to 30.
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1. brettcannon ◴[12 Jul 18 21:56 UTC] No.17518959[source]▶
28 if you want the exact number. :) Guido started developing Python in December 1989 and went public with it on Usenet in February 1991 (Unicode 1.0 was standardized in October later that year to give perspective of how far back that was in the tech world).