I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
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