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Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python programming language. Van Rossum was born and grew up in the Netherlands, where he received a masters degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He later worked for various research institutes, including the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, Virginia. He worked on the development of the ABC programming language. About the origin of Python, Van Rossum wrote in 1996:
In 2000 he further wrote: Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL -- Lambert Meertens spent a year with the SETL group at NYU before coming up with the final ABC design! * In 1999, Van Rossum submitted a funding proposal to DARPA called Computer Programming for Everybody, in which he further defined his goals for Python: Arguably, several of these ambitions have since been realized. Python has grown to become a popular programming language, particularly in the Internet environment. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL), meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, taking the ultimate decisions where necessary. In 2002, Van Rossum received the Free Software Award of 2001 from the FSF at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium. In December of 2005, Van Rossum was hired by Google. * Guido van Rossum is the brother of Just van Rossum, a type designer and also a programmer. Just van Rossum designed the font that is used in the "Python Powered" logo.
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