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foolswisdom 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A New ASN.1 API for Python

It's part of the original selling points of python, so it's not surprising that we've never stopped doing it.

pjmlp 19 days ago [–]

As someone that has been using Python since version 1.6 that was certainly not one of the original selling points.

Rather being a better Perl for UNIX scripts and Zope CMS, there was no other reason to use Python in 2000.

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