Re: Why did no one invent Python before?

From: fishboy (fishboy_at_spamspamspam.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:02:22 GMT

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:26:27 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Now consider that for much of that period, computers were these
>big monolithic things that billed one by the second -- making
>interpreters rather expensive to run, not to mention editing on card
>decks.
>
> It takes computer power to process a language... Imagine having
>to pay the time used for Python, when running on a processor like my
>college mainframe (we had 1MB of core! It was a big event when we
>obtained a pair of 300MB drives to support the OS swap space). Oh, and
>terminals ran at 1200baud, monochrome, text-only.
>
and you had to use upload bandwidth both ways....

rats! just remembered someone made this joke already in #twisted.

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