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Some Python advocacy

24th June 2002

I just engaged in some basic Python advocacy, during which I rolled out my all time favourite Python advocacy link: Why Python? by Eric Raymond.

Posted 24th June 2002 at 7:21 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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