Neopythonic

Guido van Rossum's blog on Blogger (2008–2022). Originally hosted on neopythonic.blogspot.com.

Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language.

Posts

Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore — October 04, 2022
Meeting Mike Burrows — February 28, 2022
Why operators are useful — March 15, 2019
What to do with your computer science career — November 26, 2018
About spammers and comments — July 23, 2016
Union syntax — May 18, 2016
Adding type annotations for fspath — May 18, 2016 (3 comments)
The AnyStr type variable — May 17, 2016 (5 comments)
King's Day Speech — April 27, 2016 (7 comments)
Book review: Introduction to Computer Science Using Python (by Charles Dierbach) — October 28, 2013 (7 comments)
Letter to a young programmer — October 24, 2013 (17 comments)
Compare-And-Set in Memcache — August 25, 2011 (17 comments)
Before Python — July 25, 2011 (23 comments)
The depth and breadth of Python — June 03, 2011 (38 comments)
Asynchronous RPC in App Engine Today — January 24, 2011 (8 comments)
A new App Engine datastore API — January 07, 2011 (9 comments)
While-you-type Searching — December 11, 2009 (25 comments)
Python in the Scientific World — November 05, 2009 (35 comments)
Lovely Python! — September 17, 2009 (9 comments)
Scientists Discover That Hidden Persuaders Are Real — July 22, 2009 (10 comments)
Progressive vs. Conservative — July 21, 2009 (26 comments)
IronPython in Action and the Decline of Windows — June 26, 2009 (48 comments)
Highs and Lows of IEEE Computer Magazine — June 16, 2009 (4 comments)
New App Engine Book — June 15, 2009 (12 comments)
So you want to learn Python? — May 26, 2009 (32 comments)
Final Words on Tail Calls — April 27, 2009 (26 comments)
People Who Annoy Me — April 25, 2009 (16 comments)
Tail Recursion Elimination — April 22, 2009 (66 comments)
Italia Here I Come! — April 07, 2009
Capabilities for Python? — March 06, 2009 (16 comments)
Detecting Cycles in a Directed Graph — January 29, 2009 (26 comments)
The History of Python - Introduction — January 13, 2009 (6 comments)
The Emperor's New Mind — December 18, 2008 (23 comments)
In the Cloud or Not? — December 08, 2008 (13 comments)
Scala? — November 21, 2008 (34 comments)
Overheard — November 14, 2008 (8 comments)
Yes I am a sore loser — November 10, 2008 (48 comments)
Cisco Developer Contest — November 06, 2008 (4 comments)
Bibles or computers -- it's the same thing — November 03, 2008 (20 comments)
Vote for Obama, No on California Prop 8 — October 30, 2008 (35 comments)
What makes me feel good — October 29, 2008 (8 comments)
Questions Answered — October 27, 2008 (2 comments)
Why explicit self has to stay — October 26, 2008 (38 comments)
Sorting a million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python — October 22, 2008 (40 comments)
About This Blog — October 10, 2008 (10 comments)
Thoughts after reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem — October 05, 2008 (14 comments)

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