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On 15/10/2013 02:50, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.1087.1381800936.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>   Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> The first versions of Python and unicode were developed and released
>> about the same time. No one knew that either would be as successful as
>> they have become over two decades.
>
> Much the same can be said for IPv6 :-)
>

My encyclopedia doesn't mention Python, unicode or IPv6.  Not that it's 
old, but the stone mason retired years ago :)

-- 
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence