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Happy 30th to #Python 1.0.0, announced by Guido van Rossum on 27 Jan 1994 in comp.lang.misc! 🎂 🎈 3️⃣0️⃣ 🍾 🎉

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Python 1.0.0 is out!

Guido van Rossum
27 Jan 1994

--> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

--> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax?

--> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately?

Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented
scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax.

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The announcement begins: Python 1.0.0 is out! Guido van Rossum 27 Jan 1994, 12:35:06 --> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week? --> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax? --> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately? Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax. Python has been used by hundreds of happy users all over the world during the past three years, and is now ready for prime time. Python is an interpreted language, and has the usual advantages of such languages, such as run-time checks (e.g. bounds checking), execution of dynamically generated code, automatic memory allocation, high level operations on strings, lists and dictionaries (associative arrays), and a fast edit-compile-run cycle. Additionally, it features modules, classes, exceptions, and dynamic linking of extensions written in C or C++. It has arbitrary precision integers. Python can be run interactively, and there is an extensive Emacs editing mode which includes the capability to execute regions of code. For the truly desperate there is a source level debugger (written in Python, of course :-). Python comes with a large library of standard modules and classes, as well as an extensive set of demo programs. It has interfaces to most Unix system calls and library functions, and there exist extensions that interface to window systems and graphics libraries like X and SGI's GL.

Python 1.0.0 is out!

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