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Re: Question about grad schools.



>>>>> "OL" == Olivier Lefevre <Olivier.Lefevre@genedata.com> writes:

  >> When I was in grad school, I visited Brown to see the hypertext
  >> project, which was called (I think) Intermedia. Indeed, this
  >> involved programming languages in some measure, because they had
  >> designed their own language to build the system.

  OL> Interesting. Didn't Python start in life as a programming
  OL> language for some multimedia project at CWI, too? And Java as a
  OL> set-top box programming language? I think I can detect a trend
  OL> ;)

Actually, Python started life as a scripting language (ala shell
scripts) for distributed operating system without a Unix heritage
(Amoeba).

Jeremy