Python’s success in AI stems from a fundamental shift in programming philosophy that Guido van Rossum pioneered in the late 1980s.
As he explained in the recently-release Python: The Documentary, the traditional approach to programming prioritized machine efficiency over human productivity: “The mainframe is a machine that costs many millions of dollars, and the combined pay of all those programmers is peanuts compared to the cost of the mainframe.”
Guido recognized that as computing costs plummeted and human costs rose, this paradigm needed to change.
This human-centered approach is crystallized in Tim Peters’ famous Zen of Python (PEP 20), which encapsulates the language’s guiding principles. Key tenets like “Beautiful is better than ugly,” “Explicit is better than implicit,” “Simple is better than complex,” and most importantly, “Readability counts” established Python as a language designed for human cognition rather than machine optimization.
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