Comment by dalke

Here's code I wrote in early 1998, and posted to comp.lang.python: http://lwn.net/1998/1105/a/crosscopy.html .

The code still looks stylistically modern, except for its use of getopt, but that's a library issue, not a syntax one. It's by far from "almost unrecognizable."

Can you therefore elaborate with an example from that era?