PERSON
Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python (1991). Has worked at CWI in the Netherlands, CNRI in the US, Google, Dropbox, and—since 2020—Microsoft. Long held the title 'Benevolent Dictator For Life' of the Python community; he stepped down from the role in 2018.
Profile
- Born
- 1956
- Status
- Living
- Span
- 70 years
- Appearances
- 01
- Name
- ENGuido van RossumJAグイド・ヴァンロッサム
Appearances
- February 1991Python 0.9.0 ReleasedDesigned at CWI in the Netherlands by Guido van Rossum out of dissatisfaction with the teaching language ABC. Simple, readable syntax; duck typing; an extensive standard library; and—later—the culture that calls itself 'Pythonic'. Python became the default language of web development (Django, Flask) in the 2000s, of scientific computing and data science (NumPy, SciPy, pandas) in the 2010s, and—since the late 2010s—of machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch).