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Dev tools · February 23, 2017

Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio]

A podcast interview with the founder / creator of Python

Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio] launched on February 23, 2017 with 6 votes, #1,327 of 3,156 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Welcome to a very special episode. This is the 100th episode of Talk Python To Me. It

Guido van Rossum is the inventor of the Python programming language. He initially worked on the ABC language at CWI (the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands), where he learned language design and implementation. Guido then used those insights to create Python in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has since served at various organizations, including Dropbox, while continuing to guide Python’s evolution. "Without having been on the ABC team for four years, I would never have been able to do that [create Python]." -- Guido van Rossum "If it hadn’t been open source, people wouldn’t have been interested in picking it up." -- Guido van Rossum "By…from talkpython.fm

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