Very interesting article: thanks for the reference. I remember receiving both copies if ABC and Python 1.3 from you years ago. The context is facsinating.
Wow. One of the best articles for a python fan like me. When I teach Python in University, I used to motivate students by saying that "Do you know that Rossum created python in his winter vacations?"
Now this interview is a gem to keep in memory archives. Long Live GVANROSSUM
Not particular important towards the point of the article, but the first ABC bubblesort example is syntactically incorrect (inner loop control variable should be j) & for others the end value of the inner loop should be len(a)-i-1 (In case you can forward to the editor)