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Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language.

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Date Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:56:06 +0100
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On 01/04/2013 16:30, Pierre O'Dee wrote:
>
> Some features have already been hinted at for the new language.
> No Unicode -- BAUDOT is expected to be the new character
> encoding.
>
> --Pierre O'Dee, self-appointed spokesman for the PSF
>

This is excellent news, no unicode means no chance of any performance 
regressions whilst implementing stupid things like memory savings and 
correctness.

One question, why use a character encoding that's named after a very 
famous French actress?

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PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Pierre O'Dee <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-01 08:30 -0700
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 03:09 +1100
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-01 16:18 +0000
    Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 03:22 +1100
    Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Emanuel Woiski <woiski@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 14:21 -0300
    Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-04-01 10:48 -0700
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-01 18:56 +0100
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 19:15 +0100
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-01 11:23 -0700
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. llanitedave <llanitedave@veawb.coop> - 2013-04-01 11:32 -0700
    Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-04-01 14:59 -0500
      Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. llanitedave <llanitedave@veawb.coop> - 2013-04-01 14:20 -0700
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-04-01 14:22 -0500
  Re: PSF News: Guido van Rossum quitting Python to develop new, more difficult to learn, language. Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-04-01 22:04 -0700

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