Microsoft Ships Python Code... in 1996

by mace on 1/28/2009, 9:25 PM with 5 comments
  • by goof on 1/29/2009, 1:37 AM

    > With a mad sprint starting in July, we shipped Microsoft Merchant Server 1.0 in October, 1996.

    Sounds like it was a direct competitor to Viaweb.

  • by kahseng on 1/29/2009, 1:35 AM

    Interesting story for sure, but I don't see anything wrong with it on several levels (seems implied, but I may be wrong).

    1) It was an acquisition. Didn't Google also have C# when they acquired Writely? Don't think it was advertised much either.

    2) Python is a language. Eventually that get's compiled down to probably native C instructions at that time, right? Probably not like it was an open-source module distributed in violation of a license?

    What I like though was how the author and Microsoft did to "get it shipped."