Acceptance of OpenOffice.org

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 10:20:01 EST 2006


On 3/16/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:08 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > What I find most interesting is that Perl and Python were both started
> > at roughly the same time in the late 1980s.  So why is Python just
> > *now* becoming popular?
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-was-python-created-in-the-first-place
> It was created for the Amoeba distributed operating system group at CWI
> in the Netherlands.

  Hey!  No fair using actual facts and citations in this thread!  ;-)

-- Ben



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