Guido van Rossum

Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language.

As of late I'm noticing a trend: I'm spending more time having in-person in-depth conversations, and less time coding. While I regret the la...

This is something I posted on python-ideas, but I think it's interesting to a wider audience. There's been a lot of discussion recently ab...

This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog ...

Dear (insert name here), I heard you enjoy a certain programming language named Python. Programming is a wonderful activity. I am a little...

Yesterday I attended a biweekly meeting of an informal a UC Berkeley group devoted to Python in science (Py4Science), organized by Fernando ...

A lot of people remarked that in my post on Tail Recursion Elimination I confused tail self-recursion with other tail calls, which proper T...

I recently posted an entry in my Python History blog on the origins of Python's functional features . A side remark about not supporting ta...