Recognizing the power of Python as the most rapid growing open source programming language

Guido Van Rossum was born and grew up in Netherlands, where he received a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He later worked for various research institutes like CWI, Amsterdam, NIST, Maryland and CNRI, Virginia. Guido lives in Belmont, California with his wife Kim Knapp and their son Orlijn.

According to Guido, in December 1989, he was looking for a hobby programming project that would keep him occupied during the week around Christmas. His office would be closed, but had a home computer and so decided to write an interpreter for the new scripting language he had been pondering about lately. Appealing to Unix/C hackers... read more