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Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]
- toomuchtodo 1y agoRelated: Guido van Rossum revisits Python's life in a new documentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055272 - August 2025
- gabrielsroka 1y agoI love Python. I love documentaries. I love computing history. I did not love this.
- HuwFulcher 1y agoCare to elaborate why?
- blu3h4t 1y agoI love that channel and many documentaries on that channel, But when I translated this python video with yandex and reuoded it I called it python drama and Perl advertisement.
- HuwFulcher 1y agoFail to see how it was a Perl advert
- hnlurker22 1y agoOfcourse there's drama. It's a documentary about real humans, not a lecture. What did you expect it to be, details on the interpreter implementation?
- toastercat 1y agoYeah, there's something about Honeypot (or I guess CultRepo now) documentaries that rub me the wrong way. Sometimes it feels like an over-glorification of the subject matter, sometimes it's the slick editing and music choices that remind me of corny biopic films. I get that it's trying to be engaging to not just technical people though.
- linsomniac 1y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171
- gabrielsroka 1y agoWeird. I made my comment here 4 days ago, but it says 19 hours ago. Maybe it's the second chance pool. So I think the other one is a dupe of this one. Look at the ID numbers. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gabrielsroka https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gabrielsroka
- webdevver 1y agohaven't watched it yet - how does this stack up against the react documentary?
- fnord123 1y agoIt's not as good as the Java Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE
- mgd 1y agoAmazing. Almost as good as the Java rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Cr0EWwaTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Cr0EWwaTk
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- kh_hk 1y agoNothing compares to Erlang: the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE
- mdaniel 1y agowe need a whole submission dedicated to these, as this thread is just stellar
- jp0d 1y agoThanks for sharing this.
- ubercore 1y agoSaw a preview of this at EuroPython. Best part was Guido's pragmatism on making Python more inclusive. Paraphrasing a bit from memory "It's a hard problem, but problems have solutions."
- rbanffy 1y agoI really enjoyed seeing Guido traveling through time while answering a single question.