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Python Creator Guido van Rossum to Present the Next-Generation Python 3000

Python will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel
By Maureen O'Gara
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November 29, 2007 11:30 AM EST
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Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossum, now working for Google, is supposed to present the next-generation Python 3000 in the works for two years. See http://us.python.org.

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unimpressed 12/15/07 08:42:38 PM EST

The sneering tone of this post says more about the writer than it does about the subject at hand ... and using what has to be the least flattering image I've ever seen of the man to add insult to injury is on the adolescent side of pathetic. Python, Ruby, Net, and any number of other's ARE alternatives to Java; by stooping to this level you're coming across as a child frightened by their very existence.
Python News Desk 11/29/07 09:09:36 AM EST

Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossum, now working for Google, is supposed to present the next-generation Python 3000 in the works for two years. See http://us.python.org.