An Interview With Guido van Rossum

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by Bruce Stewart 06/04/2002 Guido van Rossum created the Python language in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam, responding to an inner desire for a more elegant and powerful scripting language. He now leads the PythonLabs development team at Zope Corporation. Guido will be presenting a session on the State of the Python Union at O'Reilly's upcoming Open Source Convention. He recently took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to answer some questions about Python and open source...n

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