Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> No, it's not a silly idea. Dean Baker, the Co-Director the Center for Economic
> and Policy Research, has proposed for the U.S. government to establish a
> Software Developer's Corps. For $2 billion per year, it could fund about
> 20,000
> developers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>
>>Far answers to this and all other (as far as I can determine)
>>hypothetical questions please refer to the license.
>
>
> But note that no OSI certified open source license will grant the right
> to use a trademark. You gain trademark rights
Steve Holden wrote:
> Far answers to this and all other (as far as I can determine)
> hypothetical questions please refer to the license.
But note that no OSI certified open source license will grant the right
to use a trademark. You gain trademark rights by having control over
the quality of th
Luis M. González wrote:
> rbt wrote:
>> Go right ahead. Perhaps we should do one for Perl too:
>>
>> It's like having King Kong as your very own personal body guard ;)
>
> Good analogy:
> You know, they call Perl the "eight-hundred-pound gorilla" of scripting
> languages.
Absolutely. It's big, ha
rbt wrote:
> Go right ahead. Perhaps we should do one for Perl too:
>
> It's like having King Kong as your very own personal body guard ;)
Good analogy:
You know, they call Perl the "eight-hundred-pound gorilla" of scripting
languages.
Although most of the time, it would be a a very unsuitable bo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Stein wrote:
> Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
> style.
>
> This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
> *very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to
> working on Python. (m
Anand wrote:
>> It's like having James Bond as your very own personal body guard ;)
>
> That is such a nice quote that I am going to put it in my email
> signature ! :)
>
> -Anand
>
Go right ahead. Perhaps we should do one for Perl too:
It's like having King Kong as your very own personal body
On 22 Dec 2005 23:06:43 -0800, "Anand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My newsreader automatically (and configurably) generates the above line.
Has a new reader come into frequent use that by default does not?
ISTM that I've seen a lot of unattributed quotes posted recently.
>> It's like having James
Of the three languages, Java, C# and Python, Python is my pet. c# is
very 90tyish and VS is showing it's age reminding me of Borland's
old c++ IDE.
Python represents the new direction in program language development and
has the needed flexibility.
I look forward to Google making Python, or it's sis
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .
> >Ah, the closed source days! Back then you could just buy the company
> >and be done with it. Now you have to chase developers one by one all
> >over the world... ;-)
>
This topic is discussed on Slashdot too:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/22/1832226.shtml?tid=217
There are some interesting comments, for example from curious Java or
Perl programmers, etc.
Some of them can probably appreciate this:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/typecheck
Among the noise
> It's like having James Bond as your very own personal body guard ;)
That is such a nice quote that I am going to put it in my email
signature ! :)
-Anand
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Bugs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So when *is* someone (either Guido himself or Google) going to
> officially announce that Guido has moved to Google? If at all?
I don't think any official announcement is planned.
> Also, it would be nice to know from Guido's perspective what, if any at
> all,
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > His founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is a python fan.
>
> Aren't most all intelligent people Python fans?
No: I know many intelligent people who are not Python fans, ranging from
the Perl crowd (lot of great, bright people who however prefer Perl to
Python) to
Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:07:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli)
> wrote:
>
> >Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
> >> Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and
Greg Stein wrote:
> Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
> style.
>
> This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
> *very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to
> working on Python. (much more than his previous "one
Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
> > > Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or
> > > redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, y
Thomas Wouters wrote:
[...]
thank you for your comments.
-
TAG.python.evolution.negate
.
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Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Gary Herron wrote:
>
>
>>So how about it... What's your complaint, what's your solution, and why
>>should we listen?
>
> Nobody will ever know.
simply review this explanations:
http://lazaridis.com/core/index.html
some people have already understood this in the past.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is interesting. With more Python time in Guido's hands maybe Py
> 3.0 is a bit closer... :-)
>
> I don't know if this is a silly idea:
> A small part of the wealth of a modern state is probably determined by
> the software it uses/produces, and a small part of this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
[...]
>> http://lazaridis.com/case/lang/python.html
[...]
> Hi there, I wonder what comments you would have about XOTCL, or other
> OO extensions for tcl, like snit, and dozens more. I looked at the
> various scripting languages available to me
This is interesting. With more Python time in Guido's hands maybe Py
3.0 is a bit closer... :-)
I don't know if this is a silly idea:
A small part of the wealth of a modern state is probably determined by
the software it uses/produces, and a small part of this software is
open source or free. This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> JB wrote:
>
> > long life to Guido & Goole ! many things to come ;)
>
> Google is merely the new Microsoft and surely just as unethical
> at its core.
>
> And your spelling Goole is probably closer to the mark,
> since it is merely the next ghoulish big company,
> come to
JB wrote:
> long life to Guido & Goole ! many things to come ;)
Google is merely the new Microsoft and surely just as unethical
at its core.
And your spelling Goole is probably closer to the mark,
since it is merely the next ghoulish big company,
come to restrict our freedoms and blot out the s
Greg Stein wrote:
> 50% "on"
> 100% "with"
>
Wow, that's great to know, thanks Greg!
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
50% "on"
100% "with"
On 12/22/05, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
> > Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
> > style.
> >
> > This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
> > *very
[Greg Stein]
>>> Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
>>> style.
He's been very low-key about it, but did make an informal announcement
on the PSF-Members mailing list.
>>> This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
>>> *very* signifi
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
> > Yeah... we recognize that we could certainly open-source more of our
> > software. While we've released some stuff
> > (code.google.com/projects.html), there is a LOT more that we want to
>
> http://code.google.com/projects.html
>
> > do. Getting engi
Jay Parlar wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
>
>>Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
>>style.
>>
>>This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
>>*very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to
>>w
On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
> Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
> style.
>
> This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
> *very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to
> working on Python. (much
You mean Jython is still going? ; )
Robert
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Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his
style.
This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a
*very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to
working on Python. (much more than his previous "one day a week" jobs
have given hi
So when *is* someone (either Guido himself or Google) going to
officially announce that Guido has moved to Google? If at all?
Also, it would be nice to know from Guido's perspective what, if any at
all, impact this will have on Python?
Maybe here? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogg
lazy bastard
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Gary Herron wrote:
> So how about it... What's your complaint, what's your solution, and why
> should we listen?
Nobody will ever know. Check the comp.lang.python/ruby/lisp/etc archives
for more.
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:38:12 +0200, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> As expressed above, I am afraid about pythons evolution-speed and futher
> evolution in general.
Yet you don't seem to be worried for any (Python) specific reason. Python
evolution has known its ups and downs. For instance, back when
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
.
.
>...though not a lot of forks/variations that have persisted past the
>early-alpha phase. Many of those projects are stale or defunct, alas.
>
>Per
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
.
.
>The question is, can anyone just fork a new one using the python name,
>as part of the project, without the permission from the foundation ?
>Say for example, a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
.
.
>Ah, the closed source days! Back then you could just buy the company
>and be done with it. Now you have to chase developers one by one all
>over t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And I have around one year to wait for Ruby to get rid of the nasty
> syntax copied from Perl and make it look as beautiful as Python
> Then I'll consider switching. ;)
>
> Ummm, I'm sorry, did you say clean reflective meta-model???
yes.
> So this:
>
> caller[0]
And I have around one year to wait for Ruby to get rid of the nasty
syntax copied from Perl and make it look as beautiful as Python
Then I'll consider switching. ;)
Ummm, I'm sorry, did you say clean reflective meta-model???
So this:
caller[0] =~ /in `([^']+)'/ ? $1 : '(anonymous)'
vs. th
rbt wrote:
>Luis M. González wrote:
>
>
>>>Java => Sun
>>>.Net => Microsoft
>>>C# => Microsoft
>>>Linux => too many big name IT companies to mention
>>>Python => ?
>>>
>>>
>>I know at least one company responsible for a linux distro (Cannonical
>>- Ubuntu), which encourages and ev
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
> > Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or
> > redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, yum (the official
> > software package manager for Fedo
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:07:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
>Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
>> Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or
>> redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, yum
Gary Herron wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>
>> Greg Stein wrote:
[...]
>>> provided a LOT of support to a large number of open source
>>> organizations.
>>
>> I hope that you invest some time to _organize_ the Open Source Projects.
>>
>> Starting with Python and it's project-structure (e.g. buil
Graham Fawcett said unto the world upon 2005-12-22 08:18:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>>>Nicola Musatti wrote:
>>>Of course, I'm going on vacation next week and there was talk
>>>about a one-way ticket to Mexico. The real question is will they let me
>>>*back* in? :-)
>>>
>>
>>I would be careful comi
Cameron Laird wrote:
> While I don't understand the question, it might be pertinent to
> observe that, among open-source development projects, Python is
> unusual for the *large* number of "forks" or alternative imple-
> mentations it has supported through the years http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.
Peter Hansen wrote:
> Graham Fawcett wrote:
> > Steve Holden wrote:
> >>>Nicola Musatti wrote:
> >>>Of course, I'm going on vacation next week and there was talk
> >>>about a one-way ticket to Mexico. The real question is will they let me
> >>>*back* in? :-)
> >>I would be careful coming back acro
Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
> Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or
> redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, yum (the official
> software package manager for Fedora and RHEL) and Anaconda (OS
> i
Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 07:01, Peter Hansen wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > So exactly how high is python in Google's priority list ? Or in other
> > > words, if python is in a stand still as it is now, what would be the
> > > impact to Google ?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> So exactly how high is python in Google's priority list ? Or in other
> words, if python is in a stand still as it is now, what would be the
> impact to Google ? As an outsider, I can only base on public info, like
And so can I, as an insider, when I communicate
Luis M. González wrote:
>> Java => Sun
>> .Net => Microsoft
>> C# => Microsoft
>> Linux => too many big name IT companies to mention
>> Python => ?
>
> I know at least one company responsible for a linux distro (Cannonical
> - Ubuntu), which encourages and even pays programmers for develo
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Rhetorical
> questions are a perfectly legitimate style of writing (although, like
> all stylistic embellishments, they can be overused, and can be made much
> less effective if murkily or fuzzily phrased), of course.
Also, email doesn't convey rhetorical questions that wel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ...
> What about the copyright in CPython ? Can I someone take the codebase
> and make modifications then call it Sneak ?
Of course they _could_ do that, and even without making modifications
beyond the name change. If you want to know whether it's legal,
that's a different q
Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>Nicola Musatti wrote:
>>>Of course, I'm going on vacation next week and there was talk
>>>about a one-way ticket to Mexico. The real question is will they let me
>>>*back* in? :-)
>>I would be careful coming back across the border. I heard that the PS
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:18:52 -0800, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>> I would be careful coming back across the border. I heard that the PSU
> [suspicous premature end-of-sentence]
>
> Steve, I hope that the PSU is just jamming your comms, and not holding
> you captive over the holi
Carsten Haese wrote:
> So, if there is something you don't like about Python, you have two
> choices:
> 1) Seek consensus with the Python community and have your changes
> accepted into the "official" Python version, or
> 2) Fork Python into something else with a different name. If the
> different
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>>Well the name "Python" is a trade mark of the Python Software
>>Foundation. So if you invent another language and start calling it
>>"Python" just to get an audience you should expect to receive a
>>cease-and-desist letter.
>>
>
> That is what I
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 08:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Cameron Laird wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > >Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
>
Steve Holden wrote:
> Well the name "Python" is a trade mark of the Python Software
> Foundation. So if you invent another language and start calling it
> "Python" just to get an audience you should expect to receive a
> cease-and-desist letter.
>
That is what I expect but don't know to what exten
Steve Holden wrote:
> > Nicola Musatti wrote:
> > Of course, I'm going on vacation next week and there was talk
> > about a one-way ticket to Mexico. The real question is will they let me
> > *back* in? :-)
> >
> I would be careful coming back across the border. I heard that the PSU
[suspicous pre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Cameron Laird wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>>>Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
>>>that is "Open source" in gen
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .
> >Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
> >that is "Open source" in general. Another way is that if someone(or
> >group) don't like the current state of a p
For what is worth,
all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and
Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or
redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, yum (the official
software package manager for Fedora and RHEL) and Anaconda (OS
installer) are written in P
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 07:01, Peter Hansen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So exactly how high is python in Google's priority list ? Or in other
> > words, if python is in a stand still as it is now, what would be the
> > impact to Google ?
>
> Since when is Python in a standstill?
I believ
> Java => Sun
> .Net => Microsoft
> C# => Microsoft
> Linux => too many big name IT companies to mention
> Python => ?
I know at least one company responsible for a linux distro (Cannonical
- Ubuntu), which encourages and even pays programmers for developing
applications in Python.
His fo
Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .
> .
> .
> >Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
> >that is "Open source" in general. Another way is that if som
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
.
.
>Well, this may be the CPython way of open source but I don't know if
>that is "Open source" in general. Another way is that if someone(or
>group) don't like the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So exactly how high is python in Google's priority list ? Or in other
> words, if python is in a stand still as it is now, what would be the
> impact to Google ?
Since when is Python in a standstill?
By all accounts I've seen, and personal observation over the last fiv
Greg Stein wrote:
> Yeah... we recognize that we could certainly open-source more of our
> software. While we've released some stuff
> (code.google.com/projects.html), there is a LOT more that we want to
> do. Getting engineers' 20% time to do that has been difficult.
> Thankfully, we know how to
EP wrote:
> Congrats, Guido. Thanks for Python and may your future at Google be bright.
Congrats to BDFL too--may the future of his and his creation be bright
indeed!
Ray
>
>
> EP
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Alex Martelli wrote:
> In the general case, it's pretty general;-). In the specific case of
> your "question" above quoted (interpreting the mis-spelled words and
> grammatical errors to the best of my modest ability), reading it as
> rhetorical means it's in fact intended as a statement (that a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Anand wrote:
>
>
>>This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best!
>>
>>I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
>>IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
>>Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What othe
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:30:03 -0700 (MST), Jim Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Bengt Richter wrote:
>
>> >>
>> >> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
>> >
>> >Google can do that too, of course.
>> >
>> >http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+15+meters+to+feet
>> >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nicola Musatti wrote:
>
>>By the way, I hear that you've become collegues also with Matt Austern,
>>formerly of Apple, and Danny Thorpe, formerly of Borland. I guess we
>>mere mortals don't stand a chance of being hired, but if the trend
>>continues there are going to be
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > > > > I wonder how high a particular programming language is in the prioirty
> > > > > of either organisations of such size ?
...
> from me), there really is nothing I can do other changing the mail name
> which I am intended to.
Sorry, can't parse this (I
Alex Martelli wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
> > > > > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> > > > > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> > > > > Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to
> >
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:47:29 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bengt Richter wrote:
>[roughly "an inch is not exactly 25.4mm"]
>> At least according to my dusty 37th Edition Handbook of Chemistry and
>> Physics (c) 1955.
>> Maybe things have changed since then ;-)
>
>Wikipedia concu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > > > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> > > > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> > > > Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to
> > > > counter this than to hire th
Gary Herron wrote:
> You don't appear to understand Open Source very well.
>
> Python is the way it is because we, the community, *like* it that way.
> It evolves in directions that we (all) decide it is to evolve. Guido is
> our leader in this because we trust him and *choose* to follow his lead.
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>Greg Stein wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah... we recognize that we could certainly open-source more of our
>>software. While we've released some stuff
>>(code.google.com/projects.html), there is a LOT more that we want to
>>
>>
>
>http://code.google.com/projects.html
>
>
>
>>do.
Alex Martelli wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anand wrote:
> > > This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best!
> > >
> > > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> > > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> > > Perhaps Googl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anand wrote:
> > This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best!
> >
> > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> > Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. Wha
Anand wrote:
> This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best!
>
> I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to
> counter this than
Greg Stein wrote:
> Yeah... we recognize that we could certainly open-source more of our
> software. While we've released some stuff
> (code.google.com/projects.html), there is a LOT more that we want to
http://code.google.com/projects.html
> do. Getting engineers' 20% time to do that has been di
This is very good news. I wish Guido all the best!
I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to
counter this than to hire the big fish him
Bengt Richter wrote:
[roughly "an inch is not exactly 25.4mm"]
> At least according to my dusty 37th Edition Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
> (c) 1955.
> Maybe things have changed since then ;-)
Wikipedia concurs with Jim, though it says the official change dates
from 1958.
Better throw that
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Bengt Richter wrote:
> >>
> >> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
> >
> >Google can do that too, of course.
> >
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+15+meters+to+feet
> >
> >(49.2125984 feet to be more precise)
> >
> Actually that looks like it's based on the
Nicola Musatti wrote:
>
> By the way, I hear that you've become collegues also with Matt Austern,
> formerly of Apple, and Danny Thorpe, formerly of Borland. I guess we
> mere mortals don't stand a chance of being hired, but if the trend
> continues there are going to be a lot of very interesting p
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:40:15 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>rbt wrote:
>> Alex Martelli wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
>>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>>
>> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
>
>Google can d
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:14:16 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Rocco Moretti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>15 meters (150 decimeter, 1500 cm, etc ...)
>590 inches
>49 feet
>16 yards
>0.0093 miles
>0.008 nautical miles
>3 rods
>0.075 furlongs
>1800 barleycorns
>147.63 hands
>66 spans
>33 cubits
>13 el
Rocco Moretti wrote:
> Jack Diederich wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote:
> >
> >>Alex Martelli wrote:
> >>
> >>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
> >>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
> >>
> >>For Americans: 15 meters is roughl
Jack Diederich wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote:
>
>>Alex Martelli wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
>>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>>
>>For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
>
>
> Right, so that is ab
rbt wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>
> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
Google can do that too, of course.
http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+15+meters+to+feet
(49
Jack Diederich wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote:
>
>>Alex Martelli wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
>>>sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>>
>>For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
>
> Right, so that is about
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
> > sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>
> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
Right, so that is about three and a half stone?
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Well, congrats to Google! I think they're the lucky ones, to get him,
and you, both. :-)
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rbt wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>> I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
>> sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
>
> For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
Well they could have used google for that ;-)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=15+meter+in+feet
Alex Martelli wrote:
> I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
> sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
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Alex Martelli wrote:
> Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That's potentially very good news. (Or slightly sinister -depending on
> > your paranoia levels).
> >
> > You got any references on that ?
>
> I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
> sits about 15 met
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