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...

Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.

Guests: Guido van Rossum

Category: News

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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