1.1 Brief History of Python
Python was conceptualized in the late 1980s, with an emphasis on code readability and simplicity. Guido van Rossum, a Dutch programmer, started its implementation in December 1989, during his Christmas holidays. He was working on a project called 'Amoeba' at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) in the Netherlands. Amoeba was a distributed operating system, and he sought a scripting language with a syntax like ABC but with the access to Amoeba's system calls. This was the trigger point for creating Python.
The name "Python" does not originate from the reptile but from a BBC comedy series from the 70s, "Monty Python's Flying Circus," which van Rossum was a fan of. He wanted a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.
Python 1.0 was released in January 1994. Key features included in this release were the functional programming tools like lambda, reduce, filter...