FLOSS Weekly 11

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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