Python - History of Python Programming Language

As computer programming started to get popular and evolve in the 1960’s and 70’s, programmers created scripting languages so that they wouldn’t have to compile code. A script is a program that executed by another program called an interpreter, skipping the whole compilation step.

In the late 80s, the Python programming language was invented by Guido Van Rossum. It was based off another scripting language called ABC, and the name ”python” came from one of his favorite TV shoes called Monty Python. Gudio wanted the language to be simple, powerful, and easy to read.

In 1994 Python 1.0 was released. It provided support for functional programming constructs derived from the Lisp programming language. In 2000 Python 2.0 was released, and it introduced automatic memory management and contained some features. In 2008, Python 3.0 was released to fix some language design issues from Python 2.0. Python 2.7 was previously the most popular version for many years, due to many third-party libraries support. Currently Python 3 is the most popular version of python.

Python is a free and open-source language. There is a large community of programmers and users that participate in defining the language and creating new interpreters. In the last few years, Python gained the most popularity among all the other languages including Java and C++. It is currently one of the most popular programming languages today.

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