From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:54:58 GMT
Subject: Python Chip
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[Martijn Faassen]
> This isn't official, but have you all heard about the Python chip?
> ... [recklessly premature disclosure deleted] ...

[Chad Netzer]
> April fools, right?

[Martin]
> No, no, this is as serious as a ten ton weight! Just ask Tim about the
> stress tests if you still don't believe it. :)
>
> Is-it-april-already-ly yours,

As Martijn reported, the stress tests are going *amazingly* well, modulo a
subtle space/tab screwup in the hardware.  I've completed VLSINANNY.py,
which will verify future hardware conformance to generally accepted
international leading whitespace principles, but the Russian part of the
team is refusing to cooperate in protest of Kosovo (although if you ask me,
they're just pissed at the Swedes for sneaking herring into the borscht ...
again).

Delicate international diplomacy aside, the tests are *so* promising that
the Steering Committee has delayed announcement of the 1999 Pythonic Award,
pending completion of a successful run of GuidoStone.py, a full real-time 3D
simulation of a gawky Dutchman throwing rocks at a Sicilian mobster, from
the back of a galloping camel.  This was supposed to complete yesterday, but
was interrupted when Larry Wall ran up from the back of the room and smashed
the chip with his bare hands.  Guido-- the very definition of grace under
pressure --quipped "But, Larry, *we've* known for a decade that you've
wasted your life!", and pulled a backup chip out of his sneer.

The most important thing, though, is that until they say otherwise, I'm
*still* the Only Living Pythonic Award winner!

no-joking-matter-ly y'rs  - tim