Academic citation of Python

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sat Jun 16 17:01:22 EDT 2012


Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy:
> Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python
> Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html

Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van" is
part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da Vinci,
Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido complained that
Americans always get his name wrong.

Christian




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