It was some combination of readability, and there was a joy to writing Python code,” he remembers ... did seem like the best option. “I basically thought ‘Well, why don’t I create my ...

Why? Python simply guzzles too much memory ... Van Rossum is also fan of Rust but he reckons Google-created Go is the most "Pythonic" of all the new languages.

Read also: Here's why younger ... Van Rossum created Python as an interpreter for the new, simple-to-read scripting language, which would appeal to Unix/C hackers. He "chose Python as a working ...