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Guido van Rossum: Python

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Did You Know There Was a Computer?

In the 19 seventies, the personal computer was being born. So did you sense, in tinkering with these circuits, did you sense the encroaching revolution and personal computing? No, i had no clue. Didn't know that when my parents were paying for magazine subscriptions using punched cards, that there was something called a computer that was involvedThat read those cards and transferred money between accounts. But through that time, i think it's really interesting and instructive to think about, because as echoes of it are in this time now.

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