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Guido Van Rossum Biography Zainab Sutarwala The Crazy Programmer

If you’re an experienced programmer, you may have heard of Guido Van Rossum before. He’s the creator of the Python programming language, and he’s also worked as an engineer at Google, Apple, and MercadoLibre. It’s hard to find more experience in software design and implementation than that! What inspired Van Rossum to create Python? What other programming languages does he prefer? And what can we learn from him about the future of software design? These questions and more will be answered in our Life in Code Guido Van Rossum biography. Guido Van Rossum isn’t your typical computer scientist, but his accomplishments in the field have propelled him to the forefront of programming luminaries and led him to create one of the most widely used languages of all time: Python. His contributions to technology have been recognized by several different organizations and publications, including the Association for Computing Machinery, which included him on its list of ACM fellows in 2012, as we