Python is a general-purpose programming language created by the Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum, who began work on it in the late 1980s at the CWI research institute in the Netherlands. Its first public release, version 0.9.0, was published in February 1991. It was designed as a successor to the language ABC, with an emphasis on readable code, and it borrowed its name from the British comedy group Monty Python. Python 2.0 appeared in 2000 and the incompatible Python 3 in 2008. Its clear syntax and large collection of libraries have made it popular in education, web development, scientific computing, data analysis and artificial intelligence, and it is now among the most widely used languages.
Before and after
- 1991The Chicxulub crater is identified
- 26 January 1991Somali Civil War
- 11 February 1991Founding of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- 15 February 1991Founding of Visegrád Group
- 20 February 1991Creation of Python
- from 26 February 1991 to 27 February 1991Battle of 73 Easting
- 27 February 1991Battle of Medina Ridge
- 21 March 1991Birth of Antoine Griezmann
- from 23 March 1991 to 18 January 2002Sierra Leone Civil War
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 1971Email
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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