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As everybody settles back into the grind after the holidays, here's a list of notable new open source projects that might have been missed amid all the reveling. Grumpy: Go Running Python! (or a ...

It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. But ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

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