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Content If you ever feel bad at CSS, remember that this is the website of the guy who created Python Guido van Rossum - Personal Home Page "Gawky and proud of it. " Read my King's Dav Speech for some inspiration I am the author of the Frthon programming language. See also my resume and my publications list. a briet bio. assorted writings. presentations and interviews (all about Fithon). some pictures of me. my new blog. and my old blog on Artima.com worked fOr DTODDOX Google. blemental Securitv. zone corporation BeOpen. com. CNRI CWI. and SARA. (See my resume.) I created Python while at CWI HOW TO Reach Me My Name My name often poses difficulties for America Here's a collection of essavs relating to Pvthon that I've written. including the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Pvthon". The Audio File Formats FAQ I was the original creator and maintainer of the Audio File Formats FAQ. It is now maintained by Chris Bagwell at http:www.cnpbagwell.comaudio-faq. And here is a link to SOX, to which I contributed some early code

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When you're fresh out of bootcamp learning React and TypeScript, then someone casually mentions COBOL and you're like "what's that?" only to watch senior devs collectively lose their minds. For context: COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) was created in 1959 and is still running critical banking systems, insurance companies, and government infrastructure worldwide. We're talking billions of transactions daily on code older than your parents. The problem? Nobody wants to learn it, everyone who knows it is retiring, and banks are desperately clinging to these systems because rewriting them would be like performing open-heart surgery on a patient running a marathon. New programmers see it as ancient history that should be extinct. Banks see it as the immovable foundation of global finance that cannot be destroyed without triggering financial apocalypse. The cognitive dissonance is *chef's kiss*. Fun fact: There are an estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL still in production today. That's roughly 43% of all banking systems. Sleep tight! 💀

You spent days optimizing that SQL query to absolute perfection. Indexes tweaked. JOINs restructured. Subqueries eliminated. You turned a 30-second nightmare into a 0.3-second dream. Your boss was impressed... for approximately 5 minutes. Now they're casually dropping phrases like "real-time dashboards" and "instant analytics" in meetings as if your database isn't already sweating bullets just handling the current load. They have no idea that "real-time" means your beautiful query needs to run every 2 seconds instead of once an hour. Congratulations, you've optimized yourself into a corner. Your reward for fixing the performance issue? A completely unreasonable new requirement that makes the original problem look trivial. The database gods are laughing at you right now.