Guido van Rossum: Design and Implementation of Python October 23, 2006

Python's creator discusses the history, design, and implementation of this well-known programming language. This talk is aimed at existing or would-be Python users, and at would-be language designers.

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web. The Python community refers to him as the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), a title straight from a Monty Python skit. He moved from the Netherlands to the USA in 1995, where he met his wife. Until July 2003 they lived in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC with their son Orlijn, who was born in 2001. They then moved to Silicon Valley where Guido now works for Google (spending 50% of his time on Python!). Guido's home on the web is http://www.python.org/~guido/.

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