Python founder Van Rossum leaves Google for Dropbox

The Dutchman Guido van Rossum, originator of the Python programming language, is leaving Google and going to be the battle cloudopslagdienst Dropbox. It is unclear what exactly he is going to do, but Python would play a major role in the development of Dropbox.

Van Rossum has ‘best friends’ said goodbye to Google and will be available by January 2013 getting started with Dropbox. According to Drew Houston, ceo of Dropbox, is Of Rossum is already a long-time friend and he was the creator of Python, in fact, already from the beginning of the development contributed to Dropbox. “It has been five years since our first prototype as dropbox.py was saved, writes Houston.

“Python became my favorite programming language because it is a balance of simplicity, flexibility and elegance,” he writes further, “These qualities of Python, and the work of the community for each platform to support, makes it possible for us to make the code a few times to write before we this everywhere rollout.” What Van Rossum’re going to do with the Dropbox team is not known.

Van Rossum gained fame with the invention of the Python programming language, in 1989. Previously, he worked among other things in Zope, and from 2005 he was employed by Google, which also extensively uses Python. His name is from the mid nineties also connected to the title of bdfl, which is used for a select group of key figures in the opensourcewereld indicate.