The Discipline — Python

A deliberate reduction. Where K&R required a function and Java a class, van Rossum's first public release — Python 0.9.0, on 20 February 1991 from CWI in Amsterdam — needed exactly one statement. No main, no braces, no semicolon. Posted to the alt.sources Usenet newsgroup as twenty-one uuencoded parts that the recipient had to manually stitch back together and decode, this is the moment "executable pseudocode" stopped being a joke.

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