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beast at the grocery store last night. Starbucks sells Javachip.
(It's ice cream, but that shouldn't be an obstacle for the Java
marketing people.)</p>
<p class='source'>Jeremy Hylton, 29 Apr 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q39'>A little girl goes into a pet show
and asks for a wabbit. The shop keeper looks down at her, smiles
and says:
"Would you like a lovely fluffy little white
rabbit, or a cutesy wootesly little brown rabbit?"
"Actually", says the little girl, "I don't
think my python would notice."</p>
<p class='source'>Told by Nick Leaton, 4 Dec 1996</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q40'>When I originally designed Perl 5's
OO, I thought about a lot of this stuff, and chose the explicit
object model of Python as being the least confusing. So far I
haven't seen a good reason to change my mind on that.</p>
<p class='source'>Larry Wall, 27 Feb 1997 on perl5-porters</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q41'>
PSA 1996 Budget
---------------
Income:
$1,093,276.54  'Guido for President' 
                 Campaign Contributions(1)
$        3.12  Milk Money Extortion Program
$    2,934.07  PSA Memberships
-------------
$1,096,213.73  Total Income

Expenses:
$  652,362.55  Monty Python Licencing Fees (2)
$   10,876.45  Pre-Release 2 Week Vacations (3)
$  369,841.59  Post-Release 2 Week Vacations (3)
$       15.01  Alien Abduction Insurance
$   62,541.72  Python Web Site Maintenance
$      554.65  Great Comfort Cream
-------------
$1,096,191.97  Total Expenses
$      (21.76) Total Profit (Loss)
Notes:
(1) Many of you many not be aware of the
fabulously successful 'Guido for President' Campaign. While Guido
has no interest in being the president, the PSA thought it would be
a cool way to collect money. The centerpiece of the campaign
featured an attractive offer to spend the night in Guido's spare
bedroom in exchange for a $50,000.00 contribution. (Mark Lutz
stayed TWICE!)
(2) Since the proliferation of Monty Python
related names (Python, Monty, Grail, Eric-the-Half-a-Compiler, et
al.) has increased over the past year, the PSA felt it would be
wise to licencing the Python name to forestall any lawsuits. An
added benefit is that John Cleese is teaching Guido how to walk
funny.
(3) Pre-Release vacations are spent in the
Catskills. Post-Release vacations are spent in the Bahamas. Guido
is currently working on a system which will allow him to make more
releases of Python; thus octupling the number of vacations he takes
in a year.</p>
<p class='source'>Matthew Lewis Carroll Smith, 4 Apr 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q42'>I mean, just take a look at Joe
Strout's brilliant little "python for beginners" page. Replace all
print-statements with <code>sys.stdout.write( string.join(map(str,
args)) + "\n")</code> and you surely won't get any new beginners.
And That Would Be A Very Bad Thing.</p>
<p class='source'>Fredrik Lundh, 27 Aug 1996</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q43'>Ya, ya, ya, except ... if I were
built out of KSR chips, I'd be running at 25 or 50 MHz, and would
be wrong about ALMOST EVERYTHING almost ALL THE TIME just due to
being a computer! Think about it -- when's the last time you spent
20 hours straight debugging your
son/wife/friend/neighbor/dog/ferret/snake? And they <em>still</em>
fell over anyway? Except in a direction you've never seen before
each time you try it? The easiest way to tell you're dealing with a
computer is when the other side keeps making the same moronic
misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes over and misteakes
over and misteakes over and misteakes CTRL-C again.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 30 Apr 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q44'>BTW, a member of the ANSI C committee
once told me that the only thing rand is used for in C code is to
decide whether to pick up the axe or throw the dwarf, and if that's
true I guess "the typical libc rand" is adequate for all but the
most fanatic of gamers &lt;wink&gt;.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 21 June 1997.</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q45'>Things in Python are very clear, but
are harder to find than the secrets of wizards. Things in Perl are
easy to find, but look like arcane spells to invoke magic.</p>
<p class='source'>Mike Meyer, 6 Nov 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q46'>Indeed, as Palin has come to
understand, being part of Python means never really knowing what
may lurk around the corner.
"We've never really followed any rules at all
with Python," he said. "We're a spontaneous lot. It's more fun that
way."</p>
<p class='source'>Michael Palin, quoted from a Reuters/Variety news
item titled "Rare Python Reunion", Jan 15 1998.</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q47'>Python is an excellent language for
learning object orientation. (It also happens to be my favorite OO
scripting language.)</p>
<p class='source'>Sriram Srinivasan<cite>Advanced Perl Programming</cite></p>
<p class='quotation' id='q48'>The point is that newbies almost
always read more into the semantics of release than are specified,
so it's worthwile to be explicit about how little is being said
&lt;wink&gt;.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 12 Feb 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q49'>Ah! "Never mind" to a bunch of what I
said before (this editor can't move backwards &lt;wink&gt;).</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 12 Feb 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q50'>After 1.5 years of Python, I'm still
discovering richness (and still unable to understand what the hell
Jim Fulton is talking about).</p>
<p class='source'>Gordon McMillan, 13 Mar 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q51'>Tabs are good, spaces are bad and
mixing the two just means that your motives are confused and that
you don't use enough functions.</p>
<p class='source'>John J. Lehmann, 19 Mar 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q52'>... but whenever optimization comes
up, people get sucked into debates about exciting but elaborate
schemes not a one of which ever gets implemented; better to get an
easy 2% today than dream about 100% forever.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 22 Mar 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q53'>I've been playing spoilsport in an
attempt to get tabnanny.py working, but now that there's absolutely