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History Of The Python Programming Language

Python came about when a man named Guido Van Rossum was looking for a hobby during Christmas break back in 1989.  He just wanted to write an interpreter for a scripting language which he has been thinking about for sometime. Over that break, he creates a scripting language which he later named it Python after the Monty Python’s Flying Circus which he was a large fan of.

First Public Release

Van Rossum first released Python in 1991 for public to use. The Python language did not really can ground with the public till a forum was created to discuss the language in 1994.

in 1994

Version 1.0 was released in 1994 right when Python started to gain traction with some followers. One of the main focuses of this release was making the language easy to use.

in 2000

Version 2.0 was released in 2000 giving the language the ability to garbage collect which is a form automatic memory management.

In 2001

Python formed a non-profit organization called Python Software Foundation and version 2.1 was released.

in 2008 

Python 3 was released to the public.  Python 3 was designed to reduce the multiple ways to do something and try to limit it to only one correct way to code.  This this idea it has made Python even easier to learn and write.

Conclusion

This was a just a brief overview of the History Of The Python Programming Language there was obviously a lot more going on over the years.  My main goal here was to just to show you how the language came about and it progressed through the years.

We will be focusing on Python 3 in our tutorials.

History Of The Python Programming Language - Getting Started