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Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-away dept.

Guido van Rossum is best known as the creator of Python, and he remains the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) in the community. The recipient of many awards for his work, and author of numerous books, he left Google in December and started working for Dropbox early this year. A lot has happened in the 12 years since we talked to Guido and he's agreed to answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

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  1. Obummer is bad! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you support Obummer and his war on civil liberties and white people?

  2. Re:Loving python by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Python is a shameless, object oriented, rip-off of COBOL. There, I said it.

    If a COBOL developer had PHP described to them in a sentence, they'd have created something identical to Python. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.

  3. Re:From Google to Dropbox by davester666 · · Score: -1, Troll

    you don't get frosty piss by following directions

    And you certainly don't by taking the time to read the summary.

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