Interviews with key Python developers from the first 25 years
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Interviews with key Python developers from the first 25 years
Preface
I've always enjoyed the literary form of the interview,<br>and hoped that once I would be able to dabble in it.<br>Here's how I finally got motivated.
A fantastic<br>documentary<br>about Python was recently released on YouTube,<br>and in the aftermath of the viewing party, some old-timers started<br>reminiscing about all the Python developers and contributors who<br>weren't mentioned in the film.
I realized that there have been some oral histories of Python told<br>through my own lens (notably Hansen Hsu at the Computer History Museum did a<br>very<br>thorough<br>interview with me in 2018), but few others in the community have been<br>able to tell their story.
With this series I am trying to fill that vacuum by letting all core<br>developers (and other contributors) speak. Of course this is still seen<br>through my lens, but I try to mostly let the interviewees talk.
You may ask, why not a podcast? While I respect the medium, I myself<br>much prefer the written word, both as a producer and as a consumer.
Scope
I've set an arbitrary cutoff year of 2015. If you weren't involved in<br>the Python community by that year, I deem your participation too recent<br>to be considered "history". Someone after me can interview the younger<br>generation, but I'd like to limit myself to Python's first 25 years.
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