Current Topic: 9.2.1.History by Christopher Woodruff
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Who to blame for Python
Guido van Rossum is widely known as the father of Python and the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL). If you're new to the open-source community, this is a fairly common occurrence. The creator of a software that cares about the product will often keep a firm hold on its future for as long as possible.
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer who received his masters in computer science in 1982 before working for a handful of research firms in the Netherlands and the United States. He moved on to Google in 2005 until the end of 2013. Roughly half of that time he worked on Python. He started working for Dropbox in the beginning of 2013.
Python from the beginning to now
Just like some sort of story written by Charles Dickens, this one starts in the winter. The biggest difference is the year for the birth of Python was 1989. This was considered a hobby to van Rossum who was looking at creating a programming language that would be relatively easy for people to learn. It was around the Christmas time frame and there wasn?t much for him to do. With a home computer and time, he started the programming project today known as Python.
Python was based off of the programming language called ABC. I can't really tell you much about it. It probably ended up in the same pile as FORTRAN. However, Python is still thriving today with a strong user base. That tied with its ease-of-use are helping to make it one of the top programming languages in demand today. After its release in 1991, Python started off slowly. Like many languages that come out even today, word of mouth is required to help spread knowledge of the product. Thanks to the internet, word spreads much more quickly today.
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Today, Python is used for almost everything from web pages to machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. There seems to be few (if any) limitations for this quick and easy language.
Why Python?
There has been a little debate about why Python is called Python. The dominating story is that Guido van Rossum is a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Assignments 1. Research more on the history of Python.
2. Research the changes from Python 2 to Python 3. Provide at least 3 examples of the differences of code between version 2 and 3.
3. Provide at least one Q&A and send to cjwoodruff@live.com in a text or word file.
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