Guido van Rossum

And what's CPython?

CPython is the last Python implementation standing, also the first one that was ever created.

The original Python implementation that I started over 30 years ago.

What kind of audience do you have in mind here?

People who know programming?

I imagine that boat in the middle of the ocean.

Yes.

I'm going to please the guy who knows how to fish first.

I'm sure he has a cell phone.

So he's probably very suspicious about what goes on in that cell phone.

But he must have heard that inside a cell phone is a tiny computer.

And a programming language is computer code that tells the computer what to do.

It's zeros and ones, and then there's assembly, and then... Oh, yeah, we don't talk about these really low levels because those just confuse people.

I mean, when we're talking about human language, we're not usually talking about vocal tracts and how you position your tongue.

I was talking yesterday about how when you have a Chinese person and they speak English, this is a bit of a stereotype.

They often don't know.

They can't seem to make the difference well between an L and an R. Mm-hmm.

And I have a theory about that, and I've never checked this with linguists, that it probably has to do with the fact that in Chinese there is not really a difference.

And it could be that there are regional variations in how native Chinese speakers pronounce that one sound that sounds like L to some of them, like R to others.

Fine.