Guido van Rossum

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make…

— Guido van Rossum

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling…

— Guido van Rossum

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++…

— Guido van Rossum

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of…

— Guido van Rossum

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and…

— Guido van Rossum

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's…

— Guido van Rossum

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

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software…

— Guido van Rossum

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to…

— Guido van Rossum

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

— Guido van Rossum

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

— Guido van Rossum

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and…

— Guido van Rossum

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…

— Guido van Rossum

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet…

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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus…

— Guido van Rossum

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one…

— Guido van Rossum