Python Histoy
Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0.[36]. Python 2.0 was released in 2000 and introduced new features such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collection, reference counting, and Unicode support. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision that is not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Python 2 was discontinued with version 2.7.18 in 2020 Major implementations CPython, PyPy, Stackless Python, MicroPython, CircuitPython, IronPython, Jython Influenced Apache Groovy, Boo, Cobra, CoffeeScript, D, F#, Genie, Go, JavaScript, Julia, Nim, Ring, Ruby, Swift Influenced by ABC, Ada,ALGOL , APL,C,C++, CLU, Dylan, Haskell, Icon,Lisp, Modula-3, Perl,[24] Standard ML Dialects Cython, RPython, Starlark Time Line: 1980 -- Python Development Start 1989 -- 1991 -- Python First Version Released An “implementation” of Python should be taken to mean a...