One Laptop Per Child - It's All About the Python!

Wow. I just read something interesting about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Guido's PyCon writeup:

"The software is far from finished.  An early version of the GUI and window manager are available, and a few small demo applications: chat, video, two games, and a web browser, and that's about it!  The plan is to write all applications in Python (except for the web browser), and a "view source" button should show the Python source for the currently running application.  In the tradition of Smalltalk (Alan Kay is on the OLPC board, and has endorsed the project's use of Python) the user should be able to edit any part of a "live" application and see the effects of the change immediately in the application's behavior."

So... they are going to be running a GNU/Linux OS (a stripped down version of Fedora), with essentially all applications in Python.

This is very cool on many levels. It is the ultimate endorsement of Python.  It also makes me think about the future...  If OLPC is successful, a few years down the road we might be looking at several million young new Open Source/Python hackers.  Nice!