DN606237127

Subject: Re: Python-Dev New Features in Python 1.6 - DN [1]

Greg Ward <gward@cnri.reston.va.us> - 03 Apr 2000 - comp.lang.python

 On 03 April 2000, Guido van Rossum said:
 > Not only was it an April fool's joke, but it wasn't mine!  It was
 > forged by an insider.  I know by who, but won't tell, because it was
 > so good.  It shows that I can trust to delegate way more to the Python
 > community than I think I can! :-)
 >
 > BTW, the biggest give-away that it wasn't mine was the absence of my
 > standard sign-off line:
 >
 > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

 D'ohhh!!!

 Hasn't anyone noticed that the largest amount of text in the joke
 feature list was devoted to the Distutils?  I thought *that* would give
 it away "fer shure".  You people are *so* gullible!  ;-)

 And for my next trick... *poof*!

         Greg