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Guido van Rossum: Welcome to Python Programming

By Charles Severance

By Charles Severance on
February 5, 2015

In this Episode

Guido van Rossum talks with Charles Severance about the birth of the general-purpose, high-level Python programming language.

From Computer's Issue 2, Vol 48 - March 2015


Charles Severance

About Charles Severance

Charles Severance is a clinical associate professor and teaches in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and served as Computer's multimedia editor until 2018. Follow him on Twitter @drchuck or contact him at csev@umich.edu.

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