Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience. Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the ...

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“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. But ...