Which came first, Harry Potter or Python?
Python came first, by 6 years. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly.
Side by side
| Harry Potter | Python | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1997 | 1991 |
| Date | 1997-06-26 | 1991-02-20 |
| Category | media | technology |
| What happened | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK. | Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly. |
Harry Potter
Bloomsbury published the first book in June 1997 with a print run of 500 copies, most of which went to libraries, after twelve other publishers had rejected the manuscript. The company's chairman gave the first chapter to his eight-year-old daughter, who demanded the rest. It came out the same year as Netflix was founded and a year before Google.
Python
Python was started as a hobby project over Christmas 1989 and first released publicly in February 1991 — four years before Java, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby, all of which arrived in 1995. Most people assume it is much newer because its popularity arrived twenty years after it did. It is named after Monty Python, not the snake.
Common questions
- Which came first, Harry Potter or Python?
- Python, by 6 years — 1991 against 1997.
- When did Harry Potter start?
- 1997. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.
- When did Python start?
- 1991. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)