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From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject: Re: Is Python "venerable"?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:19:23 +0100
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rusi wrote:

> On Feb 20, 7:45 am, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
>> A quote from Computer World (http://tinyurl.com/bxqjed8):
> 
> Thanks for the link/update
> 
>>
>> "... the Python Software Foundation (PSF) - a non-profit supporting the
>> venerable Python programming language ..."
> 
> Heh! I am reminded:
> Some years ago a new reprint of Knuth's Art of Programming had on the
> back cover something to the effect that this was 'classical CS.'
> 
> So what then is pop-CS, 

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> folk-CS?