History of Python
- Python was created by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s.
- Development of Python began in December 1989 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.
- Python was designed as a successor to the ABC programming language.
- The first public release, Python 0.9.0, was launched in February 1991.
- Python 2.0 was released in 2000 with new features such as garbage collection and Unicode support.
- Python 3.0 was released in 2008, introducing major improvements and removing outdated features.
- Today, Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in web development, data science, artificial intelligence, automation, and software development.