How many of you know Python began as a time pass project for a programmer during his summer holidays? Guido van Rossum, one of the world’s most famous computer programmers, was looking for an interesting project during the Christmas holidays in 1989. There was a thought in his head to create a new scripting language that would be the descendant of ABC and be appealing to Unix/C hackers. A few years later, in 1991, he developed Python, which is said to have succeeded ABC.
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