#307: Python from 1994 to 2021, my how you've grown!

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Python has changed a lot since its inception 30 years ago. On this episode, you'll meet Paul Everitt and Barry Warsaw. They have both been involved with Python since the very first Python conference (called SPAM1 even). We discuss how it's changed but also how so many of the pressures and ideas from the very early days are still playing out in 2021. I'm sure you'll enjoy all the stories and reminiscing.

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0:00.0	Python has changed a lot since its inception 30 years ago. On this episode, you'll meet Paul
0:05.0	Everett and Barry Warsaw. They've both been involved with Python since the very first
0:09.2	Python conference, called Spam One even. We discuss how it's changed, but also how so many of
0:14.8	the ideas and pressures from the very early days are still playing out in 2021. I'm sure you'll
0:20.7	enjoy all the stories and the
0:22.2	reminiscing. This is Talk Pythonomy, episode 307, recorded March 4th, 2021.
0:30.5	Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex.
0:41.5	Complex is better than complicated.
0:46.2	Flat is better than nested.
0:49.3	Sparse is better than dense.
0:56.1	Readability counts.
1:00.6	The Zenipython as a song.
1:03.2	That's so smooth and cool, isn't it?
1:06.3	That song is by Barry Warsaw,
1:08.0	one of the two guests on this episode.
1:10.1	We'll talk to him a bit about it
1:11.2	during the introduction, and if you want to catch the entire song, listen at the very end, I'll put it
1:15.5	there. You can listen to it as part of this MP3, and I'll also link to his lyric version he has on
1:21.1	YouTube. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries,
1:26.3	the ecosystem, and the personalities.
1:28.2	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
1:30.0	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy, and keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.
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