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Which programming language, created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, was named after a British comedy group rather than the snake?
Answer
Python
Guido van Rossum named Python after Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group, not the snake. He wanted a short, unique name and was reading scripts from the show at the time he began the project.
💡 Did you know?
Guido van Rossum wrote Python's first implementation during a single week over the 1989 Christmas holiday while looking for a programming project to keep himself busy.
Other options people guess
- Ruby
- Cobra
- Perl
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- programming
- 1990s
- python
- software
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