Someone told me that Python is all the rage right now because people get excited about "new" things...

[rasterweb@mastodon.social]

Someone told me that Python is all the rage right now because people get excited about "new" things... I'm like, Python has been around for three decades! Is it new compared to punch cards or something?

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

@rasterweb All the cool kids use EBCDIC now.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@lauren @rasterweb I’m European. 5 bit Baudot for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

@jwildeboer @rasterweb You'll never attain parity with the U.S. that way.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@lauren @rasterweb But I have the accents that ASCII tried to erase from history

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

@jwildeboer @rasterweb Such a NUL argument.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@lauren @rasterweb 23 times $7 (BEL) to annoy you.