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FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 16, 2002 @09:38AM 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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for some perspective on lightweight languages by markj02 · 2002-02-16 10:49 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.