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The movie review idea is very interesting. It sounds like what Netflix is doing.

I hate to be one of those crazy predictors, but I wonder if Google will ever partner with Netflix on that topic. It seems like a good idea.

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Written in Python... That changes my perspectives on what is a 'new' language.

oh well, Python hasn't really been a 'new' language since version 2.0.

i don't think python got super popular until ~2004, but it's been around and used for research prototypes and niche hacking since the mid-1990's

Python has been around since the early 90ies. (Or even late 80ies?) Of course it's a much better language today than it was back then --- e.g. it got lexical scoping.

Python was started in Dec. 1989 and "appeared in 1991" according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

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