IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles ...

The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

Invented in the 1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, ... but that can only get it so far. Python is the number two programming language on GitHub's list. #1: JavaScript.

No, that's not a misprint. The famed open-source developer has come out of retirement to join Microsoft Developer Division and continue his work on the Python language.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.