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title: "fun fact: Mario met @gvanrossum at 5 years old when Guido was hanging out at a cafe near his..."
date: 2026-05-22
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fun fact: Mario met @gvanrossum at 5 years old when Guido was hanging out at a cafe near his kindergarten

there he gave him the idea for a terse, interpreted programming language which would become the prototyping and glue language for all sorts of lower level libraries

*Quotes a post by @badlogicgames (https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2057347614954164274); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*