What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

Early in the 1990s, Python continued to be developed, and on February 20, 1991, it had its first public release, version 0.9.0 — the first time the programming community saw Python.

By THE DATA TEAM “I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...