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Guido van Rossum: Python

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Python - The Art of Creating Programming Languages

In the very beginning, when you ware sitting there creatinghe the lexical analyzer, whatever, evolution was still a big part of it. Because i i sort of, i said to myself, i don't want to have to design everything from scratch. I'm going to borrow features from other languages that i like. O, interesting. So you baso exactly, you first observe what you like, yeas. And so that's why, if you're 17 years old and you want to sort of create a programming language, you're not going to be very successful at it because you have no experience with other languages. But i s to borrow string literals and how numbers work

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