Re: Minutes from the ILUGC meet - November 25th, 2000

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

Suraj - nice job on the detailed minutes.  Thanks.

>>>>> "Gautam" == G Gautam <gautamg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Gautam> Python was a CNRI project. Now it is like 'taken over' by
    Gautam> BeOpen because the core developer team moved to
    Gautam> BeOpen. It's license is BSDish, not GPL. Stallman even
    Gautam> recently threatened to create a new branch of Python from
    Gautam> the 1.5.2 source tree because he did not like the license
    Gautam> of Python 2.0, the first since the move to BeOpen. It had
    Gautam> something to do with UCITA and Virginia state laws.

Well, I never mentioned that Python was GPL'd.  I said that it was
free without going into the details...  I didnt go into the history of
the lang etc.  It was late and the 17 attendees already had more than
an earful (about 2 hours of talk - yes, my throat gave up later.).  So
I can perfectly understand if Suraj didnt notice.  In any case you
will agree that the technical part he did grasp admirably - inspite of
an unprepared extempore talk (thanks to my usual last minute
procrastination).

Oh.  BeOpen is history too.  Python core dev team is now with the Zope
group - Digital Creations.

    Gautam> And if you happen to update the module during execution of
    Gautam> the script, there's no need to restart the script. You can
    Gautam> just call reload()!!

Yes, I did not mention that but please note there are a lot of things
that one can mention, well, even write books on.  But relax, the talk
on python was just an intro.  I did not even get to syntax and stuff -
let alone how to actually write code and use realistic modules.  That
is for the next meeting. :)

And FYI I also mentioned python's amazing introspection capabilities,
that one can call c/c++ libraries (wrapping them by hand or via swig
and others) from python so sometimes performance is not too bad.
Besides, CPython, Jython and Stackless were briefly mentioned.

    Gautam> Just my thoughts.

Likewise. :)

Thanks again Suraj.  Great to have you as the webmaster and minutes
writer!

prabhu
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