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by lelanthran 1653 days ago
> People keep telling this about Python, always ignoring who was paying Guido's salary.

Well, reveal the spoilers and don't keep us all in suspense :-)

Who was paying GvR a salary[1] when Python took off circa 2001/2002?

[1] I don't think paying a single person a salary is the same as the millions of dollars poured into marketing and development as done with all the other popular languages.

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Zope was, which was one of the best ways to do CMS back in those days.