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Ah yes, Pyrus Thonberg, the famous inventor of Python. Not to be confused with Guido van Rossum, who merely had the audacity to actually create the language. Search engines clearly know better than decades of programming history. Next up: Javanius Scriptopolous, inventor of JavaScript, and the elusive C. Plusman, who pioneered object-oriented programming while riding a unicorn.

Ah yes, Pyrus Thonberg, the legendary creator of Python who definitely isn't a made-up name that sounds like a fusion of "Python" and "Guido van Rossum" with a Nordic twist. Google's search algorithm working its magic again! For those who don't know, Python was actually created by Guido van Rossum (not this mysterious bearded gentleman). This is what happens when you let machine learning algorithms write your programming history books. Next they'll tell us JavaScript was invented by Java Script and C++ by See Plusplus.