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diff --git a/Misc/HYPE b/Misc/HYPE deleted file mode 100644 index ff39f49..0000000 --- a/Misc/HYPE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ -Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.tcl -Followup-to: comp.lang.misc -Subject: Python 1.0.0 is out! - ---> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week? - ---> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax? - ---> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately? - -Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented -scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax. Python -has been used by hundreds of happy users all over the world during the -past three years, and is now ready for prime time. - -Python is an interpreted language, and has the usual advantages of -such languages, such as run-time checks (e.g. bounds checking), -execution of dynamically generated code, automatic memory allocation, -high level operations on strings, lists and dictionaries (associative -arrays), and a fast edit-compile-run cycle. Additionally, it features -modules, classes, exceptions, and dynamic linking of extensions -written in C or C++. It has arbitrary precision integers. - -Python can be run interactively, and there is an extensive Emacs -editing mode which includes the capability to execute regions of code. -For the truly desperate there is a source level debugger (written in -Python, of course :-). - -Python comes with a large library of standard modules and classes, as -well as an extensive set of demo programs. It has interfaces to most -Unix system calls and library functions, and there exist extensions -that interface to window systems and graphics libraries like X and -SGI's GL. - -Python's source (in C) and documentation (in LaTeX and PostScript) are -freely available on the Internet. It builds without intervention on -most Unix platforms: error-free builds have been confirmed for SGI -IRIX 4 and 5, Sun SunOS 4 and Solaris 2, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix and OSF/1, -IBM AIX, and SCO ODT 3.0. A Macintosh binary is also available -- a -DOS binary is in the works. - -If you have a WWW viewer (e.g. Mosaic), you can see all Python -documentation on-line: point your viewer at the URL -http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/Python.html. - -The source and documentation are available by anonymous ftp from the -following sites -- please pick the one closest to you: - -Site IP address Directory - -ftp.cwi.nl 192.16.184.180 /pub/python -gatekeeper.dec.com 16.1.0.2 /pub/plan/python/cwi -ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /languages/python -ftp.fu-berlin.de 130.133.4.50 /pub/unix/languages/python - -The file is called python1.0.0.tar.Z (some mirror sites convert it to -a .gz file or split it up in separate parts). See the INDEX file for -other goodies: FAQ, NEWS, PostScript, Emacs info, Mac binary, etc. -(Please don't ask me to mail it to you -- at 1.76 Megabytes it is -unwieldy at least...) - -There's a mailing list; write to <python-list@cwi.nl> to subscribe (no -LISTSERV commands please). A FAQ list is regularly posted to -comp.lang.misc. A newsgroup may be created in the near future. - -[Excuse the hype -- Python really is a neat language, if I may say so. -Please direct all followups to comp.lang.misc only.] - ---Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl> -URL: <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html> |