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32 years ago, on 20th February 1991 Python made it’s first appearance. Let’s look how far the programming language created Guido van Rossum went.

The first Python source code was published by Guido on the very day on the Usenet alt.sources newsgroup.

For the younger audience Usenet is a precursor of Telegram. It’s free and decentralized like Mastodon, and allows people to exchange text messages on thousands of newsgroups.

The alt.sources is one of such newsgroups specifically created to publish interesting snippets of code. Guido’s post was one of hundreds. I wonder if Usenet readers noticed at that time, that very post will mark an important day in the history of programming and technology.

This is how Guido described his creation:

This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that Xcombines remarkable power with very clear syntax.

Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write prototypes of real…