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FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations dept.

bkuhn writes: "The FSF today bestowed its fourth annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software upon Guido van Rossum . The two other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch and Andrew Tridgell." Developing Python seems like a good reason :)

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  1. Python by MarkusQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    *smile* I assume they only care if it's free-as-in-speech, and not if it's free-as-in-format.

    -- MarkusQ

    P.S. I say this as a Python fan; truth be known, that's pretty much how I've indented my code (in anything but forth/postscript) since the mid-seventies.

  2. Cannot trim to fit frame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, Guido cannot trim this award to fit into the picture frame.

    Because white space matters on this award.

  3. simpsons reference by RN · · Score: 1, Funny
    Guido van Rossum Awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software

    when i first read this, it sounded too much like in the simpsons episode where homer won some bullshit award from Mr. Burns,

    You've won the uh..first annual ..uh..Montgomery Burns award..uh.. for the outstanding achievement in the field of ..uhh .uhh. EXCELLENCE!

    1. Re:simpsons reference by Kidder · · Score: 2, Funny

      Gah!
      ObSimpsons:
      Lisa: This award is the biggest farse I've ever seen.
      Bart: What about the Emmy's?
      Lisa: I stand corrected.

  4. This award goes to all the Python community. by sinserve · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, Guido is the root object, and we all have
    the Award attirbute, inherited from out based class.

  5. Re:Previous awards by motox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Next year the award will go to M$ for .NET :D

  6. Re:yeah, but by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... did he write Perl? I don't think so.

    Somebody wrote Perl? I thought it grew by itself, out of the stray code that had leaked inside hot mainframes from unterminated cables. Python, on the other hand, was designed...

    --
    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  7. Re:And that in turn... by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 3, Funny
    And it is NOT true that any stuff one can do on 2 lines in perl would take 6 in python. Not at all.
    Well... It depands.

    "You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?" - Larry Wall

    ;)

    --

    ~shiny
    WILL HACK FOR $$$