FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python

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 :)

Comments

Great

[__past__]

This is really nice, especially after all this fuss about the Python license not being GPL-compatible.

I really like Python, and the style Guido and the other core hackers manage it. Best example are the PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals), a very open and community-oriented way to deal with language evolution.

for some perspective on lightweight languages

[markj02]

I recommend reading this article on DDJ on the lightweight languages workshop at MIT. It talks about Python and similar languages, and their role in the world. Note that both the LL1 workshop and the FSF are at MIT.

Re:Yes, but...

[Kirruth]

I love both Python and Perl, but they occupy different parts of my brain-space. Python is very much a well-thought out, systematic kind of language whereas Perl is more of a code party.

With Perl it's either, "My God, Larry, you are a genius" or "What exactly were you smoking, buddy" (more usually the former), whereas Python's strength lies in having a very solid core language sitting squarely across the areas people use for general purpose programming. If its text I use Perl, if its objects I use Python.

Using either of them, I am just amazed at how great they are, and definitely cheer on Guido for his award.