I realized that it would be foolish to write an Amoeba-specific language, so I decided that I needed a language that was generally extensible.
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During the 1989 Christmas holidays, I had a lot of time on my hand, so I decided to give it a try.
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During the next year, while still mostly working on it in my own time, Python was used in the Amoeba project with increasing success, and the feedback from colleagues made me add many early improvements.
In February 1991, after just over a year of development, I decided to post to USENET. The rest is in the Misc/HISTORY file.