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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by yarapavan on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:22PM (#2585171)
James Hamilton's notes from the talk: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/05/23/GuidoVanRossum21...
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by briancurtin on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:35PM (#2585210)
Correction from the notes and the talk slides, re: PyCon "2012-2013: Toronto; 2014-2015: Bay area"

s/Toronto/Santa Clara

s/Bay area/Montreal

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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by topherjaynes on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:21PM (#2585169)
Did some digging couldn't find out if this was taped as well. Any one have a link?
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by kingkilr on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:10PM (#2585925)
Amazon taped all of our talks, but I don't think they're for external distribution because Amazon engineers were asking questions involving internal information.
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:53PM (#2585512)
Try Floss Weekly #11 for a similar talk:

http://twit.tv/floss11

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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by vishgm on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:07PM (#2585335)
What does he mean by "Design iterations based on user testing"?
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by pavpanchekha on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:34PM (#2585443)
The design was tested on users and changed to fit their needs?
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by sp332 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @05:02PM (#2585545)
It seems clear to people who know the jargon :)
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by jcapote on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:04PM (#2585320)
By whose measure is it the "programming language of the year?"
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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by brandall10 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:27PM (#2585408)
"Python has twice been awarded as TIOBE Programming Language of the Year (2007, 2010), which is given to the language with the greatest growth in popularity over the course of the year (as measured by the TIOBE index)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

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Re:Guido Van Rossum: 21 Years of Py, From Pet Project to Pro... by nmb on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:25PM (#2585402)
Mine. :) But more seriously, if it's not by yours, then does it matter?
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