[LUAU] Python Creator Guido van Rossum Now Working at Google

[Vince Hoang]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:16:20AM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8821
> Wonder if heÅfs getting paid just to hack on Python, sort of
> like how back in the dot-com era O'Reilly used to have Larry
> Wall on the payroll just to support the continued development
> of Perl?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171973&cid=14322696

"In any case: yeah, we hired him because we want him to work on
Python itself. And as John says later in this thread -- about
half his time."

-Vince