Guido van Rossum Biography

Occup.Scientist
FromNetherland
BornJanuary 31, 1956
Haarlem, Netherlands
Age68 years
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer system programmer and the developer of the Python shows language. He was born on January 31, 1956, in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Van Rossum participated in the University of Amsterdam to examine mathematics and also computer technology. He obtained his master's level in maths from the university in 1982.

In 1982, van Rossum started operating at the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics as well as Computer Science (CWI). He functioned there for almost a decade and also was a member of the team that developed the ABC programming language, which was the precursor to Python.

In December 1989, van Rossum started working on Python at CWI. He called the language after the British funny group Monty Python, among his much-loved comedy shows. Van Rossum meant Python to be a language that was easy to read, compose, and also comprehend.

Python was released in 1991 as well as rapidly acquired appeal in the programming area. It turned into one of one of the most widely used shows languages and also is recognized for its simplicity as well as convenience of use.

In 2005, van Rossum left CWI as well as signed up with Google. He worked for the firm for over a years as well as contributed in developing devices as well as structures to support Python at Google. In December 2019, van Rossum introduced that he was retiring from his role as the "benevolent totalitarian permanently" of the Python language.

Van Rossum has won countless honors and honors for his work on Python, including the Free Software Foundation's Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2001 and the NLUUG Award in 2003. He is also a fellow of the Python Software Foundation as well as a participant of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences.

Van Rossum presently lives in California, United States, with his partner and little girl. In his free time, he delights in biking and also photography.

Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by Guido.
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11 Famous quotes by Guido van Rossum

Small: If youre talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the oth
"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset"
Small: I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general p
"I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make"
Small: Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Pytho
"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually"
Small: In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules a
"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages"
Small: Now, its my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C o
"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"
Small: There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path f
"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations"
Small: The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment an
"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly"
Small: If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pit
"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls"
Small: Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one o
"Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent"
Small: I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure
"I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value"
Small: My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course,
"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries"