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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 ...
The addition of some new features had been so controversial that Guido van Rossum resigned as Benevolent Dictator for Life following vitriol over the addition of the assignment expression operator in Python 3.8. [83] [84] Nevertheless, rather than building all of its functionality into its core, Python was designed to be highly extensible via ...
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".
Guido van Rossum (born 1956), computer programmer, inventor of the Python programming language; Carel van Schaik (born 1953), primatologist; Maarten Schmidt (born 1929), astronomer; Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer; Hendrik Tennekes (born 1936), aerodynamics professor; Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994), economist
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.
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