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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

"Guido van Rossum began Python as a hobby project around Christmas 1989 and described it as a descendant of ABC intended to appeal to Unix and C hackers."

Van Rossum's own account supports the Christmas-1989 hobby-project origin and the ABC-descendant description.

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Source title Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.)
Source authors Guido van Rossum
Source year 1996
Confidence high
Importance mid
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