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Guido van Rossum
KindPerson
Born1956
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.python.org ↗

Created Python at CWI (1991) as a Christmas-vacation successor to ABC — readability as a design axiom.

Created Python

Created Python (1989–91) as a Christmas project — ABC's simplicity on Amoeba's needs — and was BDFL until 2018.\n\nThe most successful accidental language ever; 'Benevolent Dictator For Life' is his model the community copied.

Sources

  1. python.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum