Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

I started coding in Python, now coding is my job. I have food on my table and a house also thanks to Guido. I am so thankful.

The guy who knows how to fish "seems like he would be the most useful in the middle of the ocean"...this is going to be another great podcast! :)

First Carmack and now van Rossum; this is absolutely great!

I love how humble guido is, sometimes to a fault, especially when you take into account how many people’s livelihoods were driven by this man.

Lex saving the internet with his podcasts, thank you for this

I love the way this man thinks. No wonder Python is such a good language

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Its fascinating, that in 1920, one Czech guy wrote a book, its called Rossum's universal robots. About a guy, called Rossum, who invents artificial people. It was a first appearance of a robot in culture, and it coined the word "robot", which comes from czech word for work. Its really cool that real world Rossum invented a language, in which the neural networks used for programing robot are written.

I thank this man for providing me my livelihood. God bless Guido!

Fisherman knows Sea as much as the programmer knows C.