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		coldacid on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's st... Considering how many different types of data have and can be stored in IFF chunks (and their order-swapped RIFF counterparts) I'm almost insulted by the PEP author considering IFF to just be "an old audio file format". I think my Commodore/Amiga persecution complex is acting up again.

oblio on May 23, 2019 [–]

Wasn't the last Amiga sold in 1996? That's 23 (!) years ago.

coldacid on May 23, 2019 | [–]

You can still buy Amiga platform hardware, although it's not the classic Commodore-era stuff but rather the modern PowerPC based stuff.

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