“I am tired and need a long rest”
In a July 2018 mailing list post titled “Power Transfer”, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I don’t want to worry about PEP anymore, and despite the hard decisions I made, I still find that many people are still dissatisfied.
Guido van Rossum screenshot of some emails
“PEP” is a Python Enhancement Proposal. Guido will personally sign and confirm each PEP, which is one reason why he is called a benevolent dictator. In sharp contrast to this, similar improvements to PHP were all done by voting.
Guido is undoubtedly better at Python-but on the third day after the acceptance of PEP 572, feedback from flakes flew like this, making this 62-year-old famous engineer overwhelmed.
He was born in Haarlem, a small Dutch city, and graduated in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1982. Then he entered the Mathematics and Computer Science Center in Amsterdam and became a programmer.
At CWI, Guido had been working for 12 years, and did not leave until 1994. During Christmas in 1989, in order to pass the boring Christmas holiday, Guido determined to develop a new script interpreter as an inheritance of the ABC language.
The reason why I chose Python as the name of the program is because he really likes a British soap opera: “Monty Python Flying Circus”. He thinks the word Python is very interesting and very attractive. From the name of Python, it can be seen that Guido loves it.
Since the birth of Python in 1989, this straightforward engineer has spent 30 years of hard work to continuously improve it, and this is where Python is today.
Guido took a photo with everyone wearing a T-shirt with the words “Life is short, I use Python”
I will still be here
“As an ordinary core developer, I will still be there all the time, and I can still guide people, maybe more time.”
He added: “But I basically gave myself a permanent vacation improper BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), and then you are on your own.”
No matter how the staff of the Python team changes, it is undeniable that more and more people use it.
July 2018 programming language index list
CodingDojo recently ranked Python as the second most popular skill in developer recruitment ads. Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey ranked Python as the seventh most popular “programming, scripting, and markup language”, ahead of C #, Ruby, and PHP.
Facts have proved that Guido’s achievements are extraordinary: Python has become one of the most used languages in the world.
It is widely used in various fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, scientific computing, finance, games, mathematics, and physics. Various universities and major companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Alibaba, etc. are also using Python.
“Life is short, Python is the shore”
Python is an ideal beginner’s language and is also used in heavyweight enterprise applications.
Its design is very simple, elegant and clear.
The most important thing is that Python is the first programming language of artificial intelligence-no one can shake its advantages in artificial intelligence.
The Python language is widely sought after by programmers, and its employment and salary have not disappointed.
In fact, as Guido once wrote in a letter to readers:
Python is a language that makes people’s lives easier. It allows you to focus on the job at hand, rather than entangled in every obscure detail of the computer system.
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