Friday, 4 November 2011

History of python.


Python was introduced by Guido Van Rossum in December 1989 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica(CWI) in the Netherlands,as a successor of ABC programming language.

At that time, it was capable for interfacing and exception handling with open source and distributed operation system Amoeba.

Python 2.0, released in 2000 was introduced with new features like garbage collector and unicode support. python 2.0 was more transparent for development and was community based.

Python 3.0, released in 2008(known as python 3000 and py3k) introduced with backward compatibility with python 2.6 and 2.7.

Python got awarded twice as TIOBE programming language(in 2007 and 2010) getting more popularity.



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