Python was conceived as teaching language, continuation of the ideas behind ABC. I recall at least one public row between BDFL and the rest due to Guido calling

Python was conceived as teaching language, continuation of the ideas behind ABC. I recall at least one public row between BDFL and the rest due to Guido calling on that legacy as reasoning for why negative hex numbers should be written like -0x1 instead of one's complement that a lot of people seemed to prefer for technical reasons.