Re: Trondheim Hammer Dance?

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:41:44 +0100

> Could some kind soul tell me why these dutch people are so focused on
> this Trondheim Hammer Dance thing? I would very much like to know, I
> happen to live there. :-)
>
> - Stig, who didn't ask when he saw it three years ago, but had to
> when he read the Python tutorial's section 5.5.

It's not a Dutch Thing. It's a Steve Majewski or Tim Peters Thing.

One of them once sent me a large sets of patches to the tutorial,
mostly intended to clean up minor typos or grammatical errors, or to
clarify possible misunderstandings. As part of the patch, they
smuggled a reference to the Trondheim Hammer Dance into an example.
When I asked them about it, they just smiled and said they liked to
see references to it in as many language tutorials as they could.

Wondering-whether-the-Trondheim-Hammer-Dance-exists-at-all-ly yours,

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <mailto:Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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