Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer, born in 1956, who is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the benevolent dictator for life until he stepped down from that position on 12 July 2018. He remained a member of the Python Steering Council through 2019 and withdrew from nominations for the 2020 election. He was born and raised in the Netherlands and received a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. At the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica he helped develop the ABC programming language and created Grail, an early web browser written in Python.
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Guido van Rossum (Dutch: [ˈxidoː vɑn ˈrɔsʏm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer.
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Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.
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