Guido van Rossum has announced his retirement. The news is the final curtain on the career of the man behind the world’s most popular programming language. Van Rossum is leaving Dropbox, where he has spent the last six years as their Python Charmer in residence, a natural fit for a platform built, in no small part, in Python – the language he created and declared himself ‘Benevolent Dictator for Life’ (BDFL).
Source: The Inquirer
