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Python Alive

Python
KindProgramming language
Appeared1991
StatusAlive
CreatorGuido van Rossum / CWI
FamilyPython
Sourcewww.python.org ↗

ABC's heir — van Rossum's Christmas hobby became the lingua franca of computing: readable, extensible, and now the default answer to 'what should I learn first'.

Influenced by ABC Modula-3
Written in C
Created by Guido van Rossum
Descendants Mojo
Influenced Julia
Predecessors ABC

Guido van Rossum's Python (1991) — ABC's successor as a teaching language that stayed for work — made readability a feature: indentation as syntax, batteries included, 'one obvious way.'\n\nIt became the default language of science, AI, and education — NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch — and the most-taught language in history.

Timeline

19910.9.0 posted to alt.sources
2000Python 2.0
2008Python 3.0
2020Python 2 end of life

Sources

  1. python.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)