jean-marc wrote: > PS If I knew that Python had a anniversary date, I'd also write to > thanks our BDFL (and authors)! But no such luck, so I'm restaining > myself! > ;-))
From the FAQ: > Here's a very brief summary of what started it all, written by Guido van > Rossum: > > <Snip> > > During the 1989 Christmas holidays, I had a lot of time on my hand, so I > decided to give it a try. During the next year, while still mostly working on > it in my own time, Python was used in the Amoeba project with increasing > success, and the feedback from colleagues made me add many early improvements. > > In February 1991, after just over a year of development, I decided to post to > USENET. The rest is in the Misc/HISTORY file. Misc/HISTORY notes the source was uploaded to alt.sources Google Searching alt.sources gives a posting date of Feb 20 1991, 11:22 am for the message "Python 0.9.1 part 01/21", and the rest of the posts are spread out over 19-21 Feb 1991, according to Google. The text description in the body of the message gives a date of 19 February 1991. If you're looking for an official "Birthday" of Python, you probably couldn't do much better than 19 February 1991. (Happy 14th & 1/3ish Birthday Python!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
