Aug 4th 2006
FLOSS Weekly 11
Guido van Rossum
Hosted by
Chris DiBona,
Leo Laporte
Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, talks about language design, favorite Python projects, and the future of Python...
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Guests:
Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, talks about language design, favorite Python projects, and the future of Python.
- Python's roots in ABC
- Why Python is more like Lisp than c
- Python 2.5 and Python 3000
- His early design mistakes
- The Mythical Man Month and second system syndrome
- Unicode support
- The Python Elevator Pitch
- Web Frameworks like Django and TurboGears, which runs one of my favorite sites, Diggdot
- Using Python as glue
- How To Think Like A Computer Scientist Using Python
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