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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.
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. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last ...
Python 2.0 was the only release from BeOpen.com. After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the other PythonLabs developers joined Digital Creations. The Python 1.6 release included a new CNRI license that was substantially longer than the CWI license that had been used for earlier releases.
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. Python has played an important role in the development of the ...
Peters' list left open a 20th principle "for Guido to fill in", referring to Guido van Rossum, the original author of the Python language. The vacancy for a 20th principle has not been filled. Peters' Zen of Python was included as entry number 20 in the language's official Python Enhancement Proposals and was released into the public domain. [4]
PyCon 2020 was listed as one of "The best software engineering conferences [to attend] of 2020" and "As Python becomes ever more popular in the scientific community and for big data, the influence of PyCon will continue to grow." [10] PyCon is often attended by Guido van Rossum (the author of the Python language).
Author Guido van Rossum says IDLE stands for "Integrated Development and Learning Environment", [6] and since Van Rossum named the language Python after the British comedy group Monty Python, the name IDLE was probably also chosen partly to honor Eric Idle, one of Monty Python's founding members. [7] [8]
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".