King's Day Speech

1 · Guido van Rossum · April 27, 2016, 5:17 p.m.
Today the Netherlands celebrates King's Day. To honor this tradition, the Dutch embassy in San Francisco invited me to give a "TED talk" to an audience of Dutch and American entrepreneurs. Here's the text I read to them. Part of it is the tl;dr of my autobiography; part of it is about the significance of programming languages; part of it is about Python's big idea. Leve de koning! (Long live the king!)Python: a programming language created by a communityExcuse my ramblings. I’ll get to a point e...