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		mathgenius on Nov 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft He should make another language, surely that's a good retirement project? But he must call it "monte".

oaiey on Nov 12, 2020 [–]

Well Anders Heilsberg did exactly that from Pascal to C# (we gracefully ignore delphi and j++ in between). And the after C# he thought about Types in JavaScript. So, I do not know Guido, but with language designers you never know.

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