Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python’s past and explores what’s next.

“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. But ...

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But data science is a specific field, so while Python is emerging as the most popular language in the world, R still has its place and has advantages for those doing data analysis. Hoping to settle ...

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Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet Your email has been sent Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van ...