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14th January 2009 - Link Blog

The History of Python (via) “A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community”, being compiled by Guido plus guest authors.

Posted 14th January 2009 at 9:42 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 14th January 2009.

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