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Guido van Rossum (Dutch: [ˈxidoː vɑn ˈrɔsʏm,-səm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer. He is the creator of the Python programming language , for which he was the " benevolent dictator for life " (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018.
Old Python logo, 1990s–2006 New Python logo, 2006–present Guido van Rossum in 2014 Main article: Python (programming language) The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s, [ 1 ] and its implementation was started in December 1989 [ 2 ] by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of ...
Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0. [36] Python 2.0 was released in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions.
Shortly after Van Rossum joined the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the term appeared in a follow-up mail by Ken Manheimer to a meeting trying to create a semi-formal group that would oversee Python development and workshops; this initial use included an additional joke of naming Van Rossum the "First Interim BDFL".
More recent examples of research results from CWI include the development of scheduling algorithms for the Dutch railway system (the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, one of the busiest rail networks in the world) and the development of the Python programming language by Guido van Rossum.
Just van Rossum (born 1966 in Haarlem) is a Dutch typeface designer, software developer, and professor at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. [1] [2] He is the co-founder of design firm, LettError, along with Erik van Blokland. [3] Just van Rossum is the younger brother of Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language. [4]
[10] PyCon is often attended by Guido van Rossum (the author of the Python language). [2] [11] Other groups, such as PyLadies and Django Girls, often have concurrent sessions. [12] It is sometimes referred to in software documentation and conference papers. [13] [14]
Rietveld is a web-based collaborative code review tool for Subversion written by Guido van Rossum to run on Google's cloud service. Van Rossum based Rietveld on the experience he had writing Mondrian. Mondrian was a proprietary application used internally by Google to review their code.