Yesterday, Guido van Rossum, the father of Python, announced in an email to the Python mailing group that he is stepping out of Python’s core decision-making and moving behind the scenes.

“I don’t want to work so hard on PEP [Python Improvement Proposal] [PEP 572] anymore,” he wrote in an email, “even though I’m fighting such a hard fight, I find that there are still many people who are unhappy with the decisions I make.”

In the past period of time, Guido has been working hard for the passage of PEP572. However, the process was not smooth and there were a lot of opposition voices, and Guido was exhausted. Guido said no successor would be appointed and that the future of Python would henceforth be decided by Python’s core developers. He is currently only worried about two issues: 1) how the PEP decides, and 2) how to bring in new core developers. And remind current core developers that the CoC (Python Community Code of Conduct) still exists.

Like most of the fathers of programming languages, Guido van Rossum has a stellar resume.

Guido van Rossum, born in Haarlem, Netherlands, is a computer programmer and the original designer and principal architect of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Guido Van Rosum is known as the “benevolent dictator” (BDFL), meaning that he still pays attention to the Python development process and makes decisions when necessary.

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Guido Van Rossum earned a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He later worked at various research institutions, including the National Institute for Mathematical and Computer Science Research (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and the National Innovation Research Corporation (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia. Guido Van Rossum received the 2001 Free Software Progress Award from the Free Software Foundation at the European Conference of Free and Open Source Software Developers in Brussels, Belgium in 2002. In May 2003 guido received the Dutch UNIX User Group Award. In 2006, he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the ACM. Guido Van Rossum joined Google in December 2005. He wrote Mondrian, a web-facing code-browsing tool for Google, in Python and later developed Rietveld. There he spent half his time maintaining Python development. On December 7, 2012, Dropbox announced guido Van Rossum had joined the company.

The crowning achievement of his career was the creation of Python. But after half his life’s work, he is now stepping down.

Of course, Guido van Rossum is not the first father of a programming language to retire.

James Gosling invented Java and is known as the father of Java. In the early days, Java was developed and supported by SUN Microsystems, but after SUN was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, the technology updates and maintenance are now done by Oracle. And PHP, no matter how much you hate PHP, you can’t ignore the fact that half the Internet runs this amazing Internet language. PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, and most of its current implementation is done by the PHP team.

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