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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. 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.

  3. 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.