I don't think Guido did anything special for the scientific/technical/data computing community after he came to Google. Python was on version 2.4 as of 2005, an

I don't think Guido did anything special for the scientific/technical/data computing community after he came to Google. Python was on version 2.4 as of 2005, and that version would have been fine to develop against indefinitely. In fact, it's been a huge headache getting scientists to move to Python 3.